The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 78

Placing the chest on his back, the man, whose name was Jose, set out for his inn, and, borrowing a hatchet, began to chop up the box.

Who acts: name, Jose · What happens: place, be, set out, borrow, begin, chop up · To what, where: chest, back, Jose, hatchet, box

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 (name, Jose), 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	Placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 began	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chest	det
3	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Placing	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Placing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Placing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Jose	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Jose	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Jose	cop
14	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Jose	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 inn	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 inn	nmod:poss
20	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 borrowing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 borrowing	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 borrowing	punct
24	borrowing	borrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Placing	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hatchet	det
26	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 borrowing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Placing	punct
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	to	to	PART	_	30 chop	mark
30	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 chop	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 box	det
33	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chop	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	gerund		the chest	wanderer's back	the man and Jose obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme on back=Destination
2	is a	past	Jose's name	Jose			tree rules
3	set out	participle		Jose not said here		for wanderer's inn	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	borrow	gerund		a hatchet			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme
5	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	chop up	to-infinitive		the box			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient
7	name		Jose				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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