The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 69

Though they were so different in many ways they became great friends, and at length set up house together, one passing the day in hunting and the other the night.

Who acts: Owl · What happens: be, become, set up, pass · To what, where: many ways, great friends, length, hunting

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 (Owl), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	5 different	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 different	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 different	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 different	advmod
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ways	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ways	amod
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 different	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ways	acl:relcl
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friends	amod
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 house	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 house	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 length	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	compound
17	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 length	acl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 set	compound:prt
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 different	conj
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 house	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 house	appos
23	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 one	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passing	obl:unmarked
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 hunting	case
27	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passing	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 night	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 night	amod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 night	det
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hunting	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Owl		many ways		different property	tree rules
2	become	past	Owl	great friends				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient way=Result
3	set up	participle		length not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	pass	gerund			hunting and the other night	day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hunting=Location

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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