The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 10

Once there, he began to make preparations for a long siege, and the first thing he did was to plan how best to send his wife to a place of security.

Who acts: king, first thing · What happens: begin, make, do, be, send · To what, where: preparations, first thing, wife, place

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, first thing), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 there	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 there	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 siege	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 siege	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 siege	amod
12	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 preparations	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plan	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plan	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plan	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	acl:relcl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 plan	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 plan	mark
22	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 best	advmod
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 plan	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 send	mark
26	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 plan	xcomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 send	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 place	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 place	det
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 send	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 security	case
33	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 place	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	king		there		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	king not said here	preparations		for a long siege	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for siege=Asset
3	do	past	king	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	is	past	the first thing			plan property	tree rules
5	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here	king's wife	a place of security		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to place=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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