The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 30

Then he hastened back to the old women, and begging them to boil him some water, he threw the herb in.

Who acts: man · What happens: hasten back, beg, boil, throw in · To what, where: fields, water, man, herb

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hastened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 hastened	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 women	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 women	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 women	amod
8	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hastened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
11	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 threw	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 begging	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 boil	mark
14	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begging	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 boil	obj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boil	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begging	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hastened	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 herb	det
22	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	20 threw	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hasten back	past	man			then	to the old women result	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to woman=Result
2	beg speech: request	gerund	man not said here		fields = field			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	boil	to-infinitive	man not said here	some water	man			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary water=Patient
4	throw in	past	man	the herb				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=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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