The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 59

He did not much believe in the horse's plan; but he could not think of anything better, so he called to the ants, and bade them collect the bran as fast as they could.

Who acts: Jose, horse · What happens: believe, not think, call, collect, plan · To what, where: plan, ants, bade · 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 (Jose, horse), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 believe	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 believe	advmod
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 plan	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 horse	case
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believe	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 think	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 think	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 think	advmod
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 believe	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 anything	case
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 think	obl
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 anything	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 called	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 think	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ants	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ants	det
26	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 called	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 collect	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 collect	cc
29	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 collect	obl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bade	obj
31	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bran	det
33	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 collect	obj
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 fast	advmod
35	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 collect	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 could	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 could	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fast	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past · do-support	Jose			the horse's plan		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	not think speech: other	could	Jose				of anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	past	Jose		the ants			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ant=Recipient
4	collect	present		bade			fast property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bran=Theme
5	plan		the horse					nom plan «cognition 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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