The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 95

They had gone to their mother, who was tending some reindeer on the pastures, and told her that by some magic, they knew not what, their father's head had rolled from his body, and they had been so afraid that something dreadful would happen to them that they had come to take refuge with her.

Who acts: children, mother, something dreadful · What happens: go, tend, tell, not know, roll, be · To what, where: reindeer, pastures, mother, head, body, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, mother, something dreadful), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tending	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tending	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tending	aux
10	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 mother	acl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 reindeer	det
12	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tending	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 pastures	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pastures	det
15	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tending	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 magic	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 magic	det
23	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 magic	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	advcl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 knew	advmod
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 knew	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rolled	punct
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 head	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 father	case
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rolled	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 rolled	aux
35	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 what	acl:relcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 body	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 body	nmod:poss
38	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rolled	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 afraid	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 afraid	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 afraid	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 afraid	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 afraid	cop
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 afraid	advmod
45	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 told	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 happen	mark
47	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 dreadful	compound
48	dreadful	dreadful	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 happen	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 happen	aux
50	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 afraid	ccomp
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 them	case
52	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 happen	obl
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 come	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 come	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 come	aux
56	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 happen	advcl
57	to	to	PART	_	58 take	mark
58	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 come	xcomp
59	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 take	obj
60	with	with	ADP	_	61 her	case
61	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 take	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	children = child				to children's mother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
2	tend	past · progressive	children's mother	some reindeer		the pastures		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past			mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	not know	past	children = child				by some magic	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	roll	past · perfect · passive		children's father's head		head's body		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from body=Trajectory
6	is	past · perfect	children = child				afraid property	tree rules
7	happen	would	something dreadful		children = child			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	past · perfect	children = child					tree rules
9	take	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	refuge			with dreadful	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=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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