The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 71

The buffalo, thinking that they would probably make a search for him in the fields he had laid waste the evening before, returned to the bean patch belonging to his mistress.

Who acts: buffalo, village, bean patch · What happens: think, make, lay, return, belong · To what, where: search, fields, waste · Speech: someone speaks here

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, village, bean patch), 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	25 returned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
4	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 buffalo	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	probably	probably	ADV	_	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thinking	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 search	det
11	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 search	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fields	det
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laid	aux
19	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 make	conj
20	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obl:unmarked
23	before	before	ADV	_	19 laid	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 buffalo	punct
25	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 patch	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 patch	det
28	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 patch	compound
29	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 returned	obl
30	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 patch	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 mistress	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mistress	nmod:poss
33	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 belonging	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the buffalo not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	would	village	a search	the fields		for buffalo; probably property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent search=Product for he=Beneficiary
3	lay	past · perfect	buffalo	waste		evening	before property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result
4	return	past	the buffalo				to the bean patch result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to patch=Result
5	belong	gerund	the bean patch not said here				to buffalo's mistress	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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