The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 81

Putting the precious writing in his pocket, he hastily inquired of the landlord where he could find the man whose name was written inside, and he ran out at once in search of him.

Who acts: wanderer · What happens: put, inquire, find, write, run out, search · To what, where: precious writing, pocket, man, name, search

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 (wanderer), 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	Putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 inquired	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 writing	det
3	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 writing	amod
4	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pocket	nmod:poss
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Putting	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 inquired	nsubj
10	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	11 inquired	advmod
11	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 landlord	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 landlord	det
14	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inquired	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 find	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 landlord	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 written	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 written	aux:pass
24	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 man	acl:relcl
25	inside	inside	ADV	_	24 written	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 inquired	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 ran	compound:prt
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 ran	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 search	case
34	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 search	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	gerund	wanderer not said here	the precious writing	wanderer's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent writing=Theme in pocket=Destination
2	inquire speech: other	past	wanderer			of the landlord; hastily property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of landlord=Recipient
3	find	could	wanderer	the man			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	write	past · passive		name		inside property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	run out	past	wanderer		search of man		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
6	search			man			nom search «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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