The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 103

When he had plucked as many as he wanted he returned to Gudu, and they went on together.

Who acts: Rabbit, leaves · What happens: pluck, want, return, go on · To what, where: many, Gudu

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit, leaves), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 plucked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plucked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plucked	aux
4	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plucked	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 wanted	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 many	advcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 returned	nsubj
11	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wanted	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Gudu	case
13	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 returned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plucked	conj
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	together	together	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pluck	past · perfect	Rabbit	many			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
2	want	past	Rabbit				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	return	past	Rabbit		Gudu		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to gudu=Result
4	go on	past	leaves = leaf			together property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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