The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 21

Becasigue thanked her warmly, and as by this time it was almost sunset, he set out to fetch the prince.

Who acts: Becasigue, room · What happens: thank, be, set out, fetch · To what, where: woman, sunset, prince

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 (Becasigue, room), 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	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	2 thanked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sunset	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sunset	cc
7	as	as	ADV	_	14 sunset	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sunset	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sunset	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sunset	cop
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 sunset	advmod
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	nsubj
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 set	compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fetch	mark
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 set	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Becasigue		woman		warmly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is a	past	room	sunset		time	almost property	tree rules
3	set out	past	Becasigue					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fetch	to-infinitive	Becasigue not said here	the prince				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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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