The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 83

With the first rays of light the whole village was awake, and the women set forth armed with baskets and the men with knives in order to cut up the buffalo.

Who acts: whole village, women · What happens: be, set, cut up, ray · To what, where: order, buffalo, light

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 (whole village, women), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 rays	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rays	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 rays	amod
4	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 awake	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rays	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 village	amod
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 awake	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 awake	cop
11	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 women	det
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 awake	conj
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 armed	advmod
18	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 set	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 baskets	case
20	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 men	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 baskets	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 knives	case
25	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 men	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 order	case
27	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cut	mark
29	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 cut	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 buffalo	det
32	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 awake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whole village			with the first rays of light; awake property	tree rules
2	set	past	the women		order	with baskets and the men with knives; armed property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination
3	cut up	to-infinitive	the women not said here	the buffalo			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset buffalo=Product
4	ray			light			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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