The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 42

And in order that no time should be lost it was further agreed that each wolf should bear the invitations to the guests that lived nearest to him.

Who acts: wolf, guests · What happens: lose, agree, bear, live · To what, where: order, invitations

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, guests), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 agreed	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 order	case
3	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agreed	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl:unmarked
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 order	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 agreed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 agreed	aux:pass
12	further	further	ADV	_	13 agreed	advmod
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 bear	mark
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 wolf	det
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bear	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	aux
18	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 invitations	det
20	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bear	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 guests	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 guests	det
23	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bear	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lived	nsubj
25	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 guests	acl:relcl
26	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 lived	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 nearest	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	should · passive		order not said here		time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
2	agree speech: agree	past · passive		order	order		further property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
3	bear	should	each wolf	the invitations			to the guests	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Patient
4	live	past	the guests					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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