The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 88

The old man and the wife, however, would not go out, but remained in the wigwam making bows and arrows.

Who acts: old man · What happens: not go out, remain, make · To what, where: wigwam, bows

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 (old man), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 remained	cc
16	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 go	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 wigwam	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wigwam	det
19	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remained	obl
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 remained	advcl
21	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 making	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 arrows	cc
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bows	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go out	would	the old man and the wife			however, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remain	participle	the old man and the wife not said here		the wigwam		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wigwam=Location
3	make	gerund	the old man and the wife not said here	bows and arrows			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product

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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