The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 97

So the queen wandered away, and picking up a small axe which lay near the door she began with the help of her friend the frog to cut down some cypress trees for the purpose.

Who acts: queen · What happens: wander away, pick up, lie, begin, cut down, help · To what, where: small axe, door, frog, cypress trees, friend

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 (queen), 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	_	4 wandered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
8	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 lay	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 picking	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 axe	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 axe	amod
12	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picking	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 help	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 help	det
22	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 friend	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 friend	nmod:poss
25	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 help	nmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 frog	det
27	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cut	mark
29	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	advcl
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 cut	compound:prt
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 trees	det
32	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trees	compound
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cut	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 purpose	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 purpose	det
36	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander away	past	the queen			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick up	gerund		a small axe			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic
3	lie	past			the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=Location
4	begin	past	queen	the frog		with the help of queen's friend	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality with help=Subeventuality
5	cut down	to-infinitive	queen not said here	some cypress trees		for the purpose	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Product for purpose=Asset
6	help			queen's friend			nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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