The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 30

Then they sat still till the dawn should break and they could find out from the Stalos' mother where the treasure was hidden.

Who acts: clothes, dawn · What happens: sit, break, find out, hide · To what, where: treasure

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 (clothes, dawn), 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 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 break	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dawn	det
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 break	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 find	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 break	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 find	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 mother	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Stalos	det
17	Stalos	Stalos	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 Stalos	case
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 hidden	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 treasure	det
22	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hidden	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hidden	aux:pass
24	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mother	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	clothes		then; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	should	the dawn				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	find out	could	clothes			from the Stalos's mother	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from mother=Source
4	hide	past · passive		the treasure			vn concealment-16-1 «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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