The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 7

One night, when all the town slept, he felt beneath her pillow and, finding the Mirror, he stole it and fled back with it to Rei, the chief of the white men.

Who acts: town · What happens: sleep, feel, find, steal, flee back · To what, where: pillow, Mirror, Rei

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 (town), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 slept	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 town	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	14 pillow	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pillow	nmod:poss
14	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 finding	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 finding	punct
17	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 felt	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Mirror	det
19	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 finding	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stole	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stole	nsubj
22	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stole	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fled	cc
25	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stole	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 fled	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fled	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Rei	case
30	Rei	Rei	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 fled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chief	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chief	det
33	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Rei	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 men	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 men	det
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 men	amod
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 chief	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	all town					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	town		Kufa's pillow	night		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath pillow=Location
3	find	gerund	town not said here	the Mirror				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Topic
4	steal	past	town	Mirror				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	flee back	past	town not said here		Rei		with Mirror	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rei=Initial_Location

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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