The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 47

And the Doran-donn dived, and laying hold of the salmon by his tail, bore it back to the place where Covan was standing.

Who acts: Doran, Covan · What happens: dive, lay, bear back, stand, hold · To what, where: hold, salmon

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doran, Covan), 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	_	6 dived	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Doran	det
3	Doran	Doran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dived	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 donn	punct
5	donn	donn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Doran	conj
6	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laying	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laying	cc
9	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dived	advcl
10	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laying	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 salmon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 salmon	det
13	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	nmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 tail	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bore	punct
18	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dived	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bore	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 bore	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bore	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 standing	advmod
25	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 standing	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 standing	aux
27	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 place	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dive	past	the Doran and donn			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	lay	gerund	the Doran and donn not said here	hold of the salmon	by salmon's tail	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme by tail=Destination
3	bear back	past	the Doran and donn not said here	hold	to the place	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	stand	past · progressive	Covan			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold			the salmon		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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