The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 83

Now both the prince and Becasigue were quite unaware that the old woman had any guests besides themselves, and, following afar, were much surprised to behold Eglantine and her charge enter the cottage.

Who acts: old woman, following, Eglantine · What happens: be, have, follow, behold, enter, charge · To what, where: guests, cottage

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 (old woman, following, Eglantine), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 unaware	advmod
2	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 prince	cc:preconj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Becasigue	cc
6	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 prince	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unaware	cop
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 unaware	advmod
9	unaware	unaware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unaware	advcl
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 guests	det
16	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	besides	besides	ADP	_	18 themselves	case
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 had	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surprised	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 surprised	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 surprised	csubj
23	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 following	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 following	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 surprised	cop
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 surprised	advmod
27	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 unaware	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 behold	mark
29	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 surprised	advcl
30	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 enter	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 charge	cc
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 charge	nmod:poss
33	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Eglantine	conj
34	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 behold	ccomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cottage	det
36	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 enter	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unaware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			now	unaware property	tree rules
2	have	past	the old woman	any guests		besides prince	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Patient
3	follow	gerund				afar property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	following			surprised property	tree rules
5	behold	to-infinitive	following not said here				tree rules
6	enter	present	Eglantine and Eglantine's charge	the cottage			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination
7	charge		Eglantine				nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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