The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 20

He crept up to them on tiptoe, and when one old woman passed her dinner to the other he held out his hand and took it and ate if for himself.

Who acts: bird, one old woman · What happens: creep up, pass, hold out, take, eat · To what, where: fields, tiptoe, dinner, other, hand

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, one old woman), 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	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 crept	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 tiptoe	case
7	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 passed	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 woman	nummod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dinner	nmod:poss
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 other	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 passed	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 held	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 held	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 held	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 held	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ate	cc
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 himself	mark
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 himself	case
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 ate	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	bird		fields = field	tiptoe		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination
2	pass	past	one old woman	woman's dinner	the other			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme to other=Recipient
3	hold out	past	bird	bird's hand				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	take	past	bird not said here	hand				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	eat	past	bird not said here				for bird	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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