The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 81

The road on the other side led down an avenue of trees, and before they had gone very far Gudu opened the bag that lay hidden in the thick hair about his neck, and began to eat some delicious-looking fruit.

Who acts: other side, trees, road · What happens: lead down, go, open, hide, begin, eat · To what, where: avenue, bag, thick hair, looking fruit

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 (other side, trees, road), 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 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 opened	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 road	nmod
7	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 side	acl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 led	compound:prt
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 avenue	det
10	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 trees	case
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 avenue	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gone	cc
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 gone	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gone	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 opened	advcl
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 far	advmod
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 opened	advmod
21	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 opened	nsubj
22	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bag	det
24	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 opened	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 hidden	nsubj:pass
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hidden	aux:pass
27	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bag	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 hair	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hair	det
30	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hair	amod
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hidden	obl
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 neck	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 neck	nmod:poss
34	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hair	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 opened	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 eat	mark
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 fruit	det
41	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 looking	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 delicious	punct
43	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 fruit	amod
44	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eat	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead down	participle	the other side not said here	a avenue of trees			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avenue=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	trees = tree				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	past	the road on the other side	the bag		far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme
4	hide	past · passive		the bag	the thick hair about Gudu's neck		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in hair=Location
5	begin	past	the road on the other side not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	eat	to-infinitive	the road on the other side not said here	some looking fruit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
7	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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