The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 21

So, without telling anyone what she intended to do, she ordered a little low carriage to be built, something like a sledge, only it was on two wheels--just big enough to hold one person.

Who acts: other, carriage · What happens: tell, intend, do, order, build, be · To what, where: anyone, little low carriage, two wheels, one person · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (other, carriage), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 ordered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 telling	mark
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ordered	advcl
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 telling	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 intended	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 intended	nsubj
8	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 anyone	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 intended	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ordered	nsubj
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 carriage	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 carriage	amod
16	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 carriage	amod
17	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 built	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 built	aux:pass
20	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 carriage	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 something	punct
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 carriage	appos
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 sledge	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sledge	det
25	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 something	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wheels	punct
27	only	only	ADV	_	32 wheels	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wheels	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wheels	cop
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 wheels	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 wheels	nummod
32	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sledge	appos
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 big	punct
34	just	just	ADV	_	35 big	advmod
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wheels	amod
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	35 big	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 hold	mark
38	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 big	advcl
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 person	nummod
40	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hold	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	other not said here		anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	intend	past	other				tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	other not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	order	past	other	a little low carriage			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme
5	build	to-infinitive · passive	other not said here	a little low carriage not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»
6	is	past	carriage			two wheels	tree rules
7	hold	to-infinitive	carriage not said here	one person			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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