The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 103

Here they would take out the bits of bread they had saved from their breakfasts and crumble them for the birds.

Who acts: boy · What happens: take out, save, crumble · To what, where: bits, bread, breakfasts, boy

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 take	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bits	det
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bits	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saved	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saved	aux
12	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 bread	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 breakfasts	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 breakfasts	nmod:poss
15	breakfasts	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saved	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crumble	cc
17	crumble	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crumble	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 birds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 birds	det
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 crumble	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take out	would	boy	the bits of bread	here		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
2	save	past · perfect	boy	bread not said here	boy's breakfasts		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from breakfast=Source
3	crumble	infinitive	boy not said here	boy		for the birds	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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