The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 98

And taking the big cake he went his way.

Who acts: blessing · What happens: take, go · To what, where: big cake, way

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 (blessing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 taking	cc
2	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cake	amod
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cake	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		the big cake					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
2	go	past	blessing	blessing's way					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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