The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 25

Ardan son of Gorla was sitting under a tree, when he beheld a staff of gold and a staff of silver doubling themselves in strange ways on the meadow in front of him, and starting up he hastened towards them.

Who acts: Ardan son, son, staff · What happens: sit, behold, double, start up, hasten · To what, where: tree, staff, cows, strange ways

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ardan son, son, staff), 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	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 son	compound
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Gorla	case
4	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beheld	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 beheld	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beheld	nsubj
13	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 staff	det
15	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beheld	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 gold	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 staff	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 doubling	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 staff	det
20	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 doubling	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 silver	case
22	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 staff	nmod
23	doubling	double	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 beheld	conj
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 doubling	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 ways	case
26	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ways	amod
27	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 doubling	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 meadow	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 meadow	det
30	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ways	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meadow	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 front	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hastened	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hastened	cc
37	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 hastened	advcl
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 starting	compound:prt
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hastened	nsubj
40	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
41	towards	towards	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hastened	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Ardan son of Gorla		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	behold	past	son	a staff of gold			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer staff=Stimulus
3	double	gerund	a staff of silver	cows = cow	strange ways on the meadow in front of son		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
4	start up	gerund	staff not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	hasten	past	staff			towards cows = cow	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination

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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