The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 14

The two Sodnos had seen what they were doing, and where the beasts were secured; so, at midnight, when all was still, they crept down from their tree and seized the reindeer by the horns which were locked together.

Who acts: two Sodnos, directions, all · What happens: see, do, secure, be, creep down, seize · To what, where: beasts, tree, reindeer, horns

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 (two Sodnos, directions, all), 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 Sodnos	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Sodnos	nummod
3	Sodnos	Sodnos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 seen	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 secured	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 secured	cc
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 secured	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beasts	det
14	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 secured	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 secured	aux:pass
16	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seen	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 crept	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	29 crept	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 midnight	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 midnight	case
21	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crept	punct
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 still	mark
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 still	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 still	cop
26	still	still	ADV	_	29 crept	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crept	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 crept	nsubj
29	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	parataxis
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 crept	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tree	nmod:poss
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crept	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seized	cc
35	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crept	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 reindeer	det
37	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seized	obj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 horns	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 horns	det
40	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 seized	obl
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 locked	nsubj:pass
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 locked	aux:pass
43	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 horns	acl:relcl
44	together	together	ADV	_	43 locked	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	the two Sodnos					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	do	past · progressive	directions = direction					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	secure	past · passive		the beasts				vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	all				still property	tree rules
5	creep down	past	directions = direction		directions's tree	midnight	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
6	seize	past	directions = direction not said here	the reindeer			by the horns	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme
7	lock	past · passive		the horns			together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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