The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 53

The buffalo bore it as long as he could; but, one day, when his mistress bade him go to the lake and fetch water, his knees almost gave way from hunger.

Who acts: buffalo, knees · What happens: bear, go, fetch, give · To what, where: dish, lake, water, way, hunger

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffalo, knees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buffalo	det
2	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bore	nsubj
3	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bore	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 bore	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 long	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 go	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bade	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 bade	advmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bade	nmod:poss
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bade	compound
19	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	nmod
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	obj
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bore	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 lake	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fetch	cc
26	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 go	conj
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fetch	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 knees	nmod:poss
30	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gave	nsubj
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 gave	advmod
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bore	conj
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 hunger	case
35	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the buffalo	dish			long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	present			the lake	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
3	fetch	present		water				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	give	past	buffalo's knees	way	hunger		almost property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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