The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 104

When at last they reached the other side, the owl's wife untied the line from the frog's mouth and told him he might rest and play by the lake till they got back from the forest.

Who acts: sorts, wife, boy · What happens: reach, untie, tell, rest, play, get back · To what, where: other side, last, line, boy, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts, wife, boy), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reached	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 untied	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 owl	det
11	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 owl	case
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 untied	nsubj
14	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 line	det
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 untied	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 mouth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 frog	det
19	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mouth	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 frog	case
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 untied	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 untied	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rest	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 rest	aux
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	ccomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 play	cc
29	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rest	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 lake	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lake	det
32	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 play	obl
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 got	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 play	advcl
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 forest	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forest	det
39	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 got	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 untied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	sorts = sort	the other side		last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent side=Theme at last=Asset
2	untie	past	the owl's wife	the line			from the frog's mouth	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent line=Patient from mouth=Co-Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the owl's wife not said here		boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	rest	might	boy					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	infinitive	boy not said here				by the lake	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get back	past	sorts = sort			the forest		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from forest=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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