The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 112

Then, feeling as if they had found a friend, they walked along its banks, hoping that by- and-by they should meet some one to take care of them.

Who acts: children · What happens: feel, find, walk, hope, meet, take · To what, where: friend, banks, one, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 feeling	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 walked	advcl
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 feeling	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 friend	det
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feeling	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 banks	nmod:poss
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hoping	punct
18	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 walked	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 meet	mark
20	by	by	ADP	_	19 that	fixed
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 by	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 by	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 by	punct
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 meet	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meet	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 meet	aux
27	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hoping	ccomp
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meet	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 meet	advcl
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 take	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	children = child not said here			then		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	find	past · perfect	children = child	a friend				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic
3	walk	past	children = child		friend's banks			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Trajectory
4	hope	gerund	children = child not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	meet	should	children = child	some one				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
6	take	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	care			of children = child	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial_Location

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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