The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 88

The young man looked everywhere, but he could not find the axe, for the very good reason that Patto had managed to pick it up and hide it in his clothes.

Who acts: young man, man, Patto · What happens: look, not find, manage, pick up, hide · To what, where: axe, good reason, clothes

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 (young man, man, Patto), 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	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 looked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 axe	det
13	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reason	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 reason	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reason	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reason	amod
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 managed	mark
21	Patto	Patto	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 managed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 managed	aux
23	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 reason	acl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 pick	mark
25	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pick	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 pick	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hide	cc
29	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 managed	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hide	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 clothes	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 clothes	nmod:poss
33	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	29 hide	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the young man			everywhere property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not find	could	man	the axe			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic
3	manage	past · perfect	Patto	the good reason not said here			tree rules
4	pick up	to-infinitive	Patto not said here	axe			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	hide	present	Patto not said here	axe	Patto's clothes		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in clothes=Location

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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