The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 18

The children were alive at that very moment in the gardener's cottage; but at night the chamberlain came down and put them in a cradle of crystal, which he carried to the river.

Who acts: children, chamberlain · What happens: be, come down, put, carry · To what, where: children, cradle, crystal, river

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, chamberlain), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 alive	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	cop
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 moment	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 moment	advmod
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 cottage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gardener	det
11	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cottage	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 gardener	case
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moment	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chamberlain	det
19	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	parataxis
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 came	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 cradle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cradle	det
27	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 crystal	case
29	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cradle	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carried	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 carried	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carried	nsubj
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crystal	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 river	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 river	det
36	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children			moment	alive property	tree rules
2	come down	past	the chamberlain			night	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	infinitive	the chamberlain not said here	children = child	a cradle of crystal			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in cradle=Destination
4	carry	past	chamberlain	crystal	the river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to river=Destination

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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