The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 13

It had happened that on this very evening the Stalos had driven in some of the reindeer from the pasture, and had tied them up to the wall of the house so that they might be handy to kill for next day's dinner.

Who acts: It, some, directions · What happens: happen, drive, tie up, be, kill · To what, where: Stalos, directions

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, some, directions), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	aux
3	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 driven	mark
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 evening	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 evening	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 evening	advmod
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 driven	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Stalos	det
10	Stalos	Stalos	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 driven	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 driven	aux
12	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happened	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 some	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 driven	obl:agent
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 reindeer	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reindeer	det
17	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 some	nmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 pasture	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pasture	det
20	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reindeer	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tied	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tied	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tied	aux
24	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happened	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tied	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 tied	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 wall	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wall	det
29	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tied	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wall	nmod
33	so	so	SCONJ	_	38 handy	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 handy	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 handy	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 handy	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 handy	cop
38	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tied	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 kill	mark
40	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 handy	csubj
41	for	for	ADP	_	45 dinner	case
42	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 day	amod
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dinner	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 day	case
45	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kill	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past · perfect	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive	past · perfect · passive	some	the Stalos	evening		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	tie up	past · perfect		directions = direction		to the wall of the house	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to wall=Co-Patient
4	is	might	directions = direction			handy property	tree rules
5	kill	to-infinitive				for next day's dinner	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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