The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 73

An old fisherman was chosen to stand near the boat to watch fair play, and to hold the stakes, and Andras, as the stranger was told to jump first.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: choose, stand, watch, hold, tell, jump · To what, where: old fisherman, boat, fair play, stakes, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stranger), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fisherman	amod
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chosen	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chosen	aux:pass
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stand	mark
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chosen	xcomp
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 boat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stand	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 watch	mark
12	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stand	advcl
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 play	amod
14	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watch	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hold	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hold	mark
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stand	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stakes	det
20	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hold	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Andras	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Andras	cc
23	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chosen	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 told	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stranger	det
27	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux:pass
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chosen	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 jump	mark
31	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 told	xcomp
32	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 jump	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		a old fisherman			tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive			the boat		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near boat=Location
3	watch	to-infinitive		fair play			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
4	hold	to-infinitive		the stakes			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stake=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the stranger			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	jump not said to happen	to-infinitive	the stranger not said here			first property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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