The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 78

And they flew off to give themselves a wash, and to make themselves smart before the girls awoke.

Who acts: Owl, girls · What happens: fly off, give, make, awake · To what, where: Owl

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, girls), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 flew	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flew	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flew	xcomp
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 give	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wash	det
9	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flew	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 make	obj
15	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	xcomp
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 awoke	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girls	det
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 awoke	nsubj
19	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 smart	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	Owl			tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	Owl not said here	Owl		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient wash=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	Owl not said here	Owl	smart property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
4	awake	past	the girls			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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