The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 12

Meanwhile, the prince and Becasigue were wandering through the wood, till at last the prince grew so tired, that he lay down under a tree, and told Becasigue that he had better go in search of food, and of some place where they could sleep.

Who acts: prince, last, Becasigue · What happens: wonder, grow, lie down, tell, have, go · To what, where: wood, tree, Becasigue, search, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, last, Becasigue), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	8 wandering	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wandering	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Becasigue	cc
6	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 prince	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wandering	aux
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 grew	advcl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wandering	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 grew	mark
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	nsubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prince	det
17	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 last	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 tired	advmod
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 lay	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grew	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 lay	compound:prt
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 tree	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tree	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 told	cc
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grew	conj
32	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 told	iobj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	ccomp
36	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 had	advmod
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 search	case
39	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 food	case
41	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 search	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 place	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 place	cc
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 place	case
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 place	det
46	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 told	obl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 sleep	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sleep	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 sleep	aux
50	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 place	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	the prince and Becasigue			the wood	meanwhile property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow	past	last				tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie down	past	Becasigue			a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	last not said here		Becasigue		of some place	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent becasigue=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have	past	Becasigue				well property	tree rules
6	go	infinitive	Becasigue not said here			search of food		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
7	sleep	could	prince					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	search			food				nom search «act 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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