The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 89

All went well for several months, and then the eagle's wife had a son, while, on the same day, the owl's wife gave birth to a frog, which she placed directly on the banks of a stream near by, as he did not seem to like the house.

Who acts: wife, frog, Eagle · What happens: go, have, give, place, not seem, like · To what, where: son, birth, frog, banks, house

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 (wife, frog, Eagle), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 months	amod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 had	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 eagle	case
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 gave	mark
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 while	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 day	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 owl	det
26	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wife	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 owl	case
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	parataxis
30	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 frog	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 frog	det
33	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 placed	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 placed	nsubj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 placed	nsubj
37	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 frog	acl:relcl
38	directly	directly	ADV	_	37 placed	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 banks	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 banks	det
41	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 placed	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 stream	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 stream	det
44	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 banks	nmod
45	near	near	ADV	_	44 stream	advmod
46	by	by	ADP	_	45 near	fixed
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 seem	punct
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 seem	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 seem	nsubj
50	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 seem	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 seem	advmod
52	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 gave	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 like	mark
54	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 seem	xcomp
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 house	det
56	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 like	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past					month	well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the eagle's wife	a son			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	give	past	the owl's wife	birth	a frog		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to frog=Recipient
4	place	past	a frog			the banks of a stream		directly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on bank=Destination
5	not seem	past · do-support	Eagle						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	like	to-infinitive	Eagle not said here	the house					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=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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