The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 59

The way, though rough and stony, seemed all too short, and when they reached the spot appointed by the dragon the giant ordered the men who bore the litter to stand still.

Who acts: way, tears, spot, men · What happens: seem, reach, appoint, order, bear, stand · To what, where: spot, men, litter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, tears, spot, men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rough	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 rough	mark
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 way	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stony	cc
7	stony	stony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rough	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 short	nsubj
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 short	advmod
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seemed	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reached	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reached	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 reached	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spot	det
19	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ordered	nsubj
20	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 spot	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 dragon	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dragon	det
23	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 appointed	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 giant	det
25	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dragon	amod
26	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reached	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 men	det
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ordered	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 bore	nsubj
30	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 men	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 litter	det
32	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bore	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stand	mark
34	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 litter	acl
35	still	still	ADV	_	34 stand	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the way				short property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	tears = tear					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	appoint	participle		the spot not said here			by the dragon	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	order	past	the spot		the men			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	bear	past	the men	the litter				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Patient
6	stand	to-infinitive	the men not said here	the litter not said here		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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