The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 47

So he fetched a little water from the stream in his horn hunting cup, then, cutting some branches from the trees, he twisted them into a litter which he covered with moss, and laid the white doe gently on it.

Who acts: bade, horn · What happens: fetch, hunt, cut, twist, cover, lay · To what, where: little water, stream, cup, branches, trees, litter

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 (bade, horn), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 fetched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fetched	nsubj
3	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 horn	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horn	nmod:poss
12	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obl
13	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 horn	acl
14	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunting	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cutting	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 cutting	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cutting	punct
18	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fetched	advcl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 branches	det
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cutting	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 trees	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cutting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 twisted	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 twisted	nsubj
26	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 twisted	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 litter	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 litter	det
30	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 twisted	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 covered	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 covered	nsubj
33	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 litter	acl:relcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 moss	case
35	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 laid	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 laid	cc
38	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 doe	det
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 doe	amod
41	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	obj
42	gently	gently	ADV	_	38 laid	advmod
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 laid	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	bade	a little water	the stream		in bade's horn	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from stream=Source
2	hunt	gerund	bade's horn not said here	cup				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
3	cut	gerund	bade not said here	some branches	the trees	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset branch=Product from tree=Material
4	twist	past	bade	branches = branch	a litter			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into litter=Trajectory
5	cover	past	bade	a litter			with moss	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Destination with moss=Theme
6	lay	past	bade not said here	the white doe	moss		gently property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent doe=Theme on it=Destination

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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