The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 84

A boy who had met him hastened to tell the bailiff that his enemy was only a few miles off; and the bailiff, disguising himself as a Stalo, or ogre, called his son and his dog and rowed away across the fiord to the place where the boy had met Andras.

Who acts: boy, bailiff · What happens: meet, hasten, tell, be, disguise, call · To what, where: boy, bailiff, ogre, son, fiord, Andras · 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 (boy, bailiff), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hastened	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 met	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	aux
5	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 boy	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	obj
7	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hastened	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bailiff	det
11	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 off	nsubj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 enemy	nmod:poss
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 off	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 off	cop
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 miles	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 miles	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 miles	amod
19	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 off	obl:unmarked
20	off	off	ADV	_	11 bailiff	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 bailiff	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bailiff	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bailiff	det
24	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hastened	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 disguising	punct
26	disguising	disguise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 bailiff	acl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 disguising	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 Stalo	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Stalo	det
30	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 disguising	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ogre	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 ogre	cc
33	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bailiff	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 called	punct
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 ogre	acl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 son	nmod:poss
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 called	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dog	cc
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 dog	nmod:poss
40	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bailiff	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rowed	cc
42	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hastened	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 rowed	advmod
44	across	across	ADP	_	46 fiord	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fiord	det
46	fiord	fiord	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rowed	obl
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 place	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 place	det
49	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rowed	obl
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	54 met	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 boy	det
52	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 met	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 met	aux
54	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 place	acl:relcl
55	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 met	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	a boy	boy				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	hasten	participle	a boy	the bailiff or ogre and bailiff's dog				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	the bailiff				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bailiff=Recipient
4	is	past	the bailiff				a few miles obl:unmarked; off property	tree rules
5	disguise	gerund	the bailiff or ogre and bailiff's dog not said here	boy			as a Stalo	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination
6	call	participle		ogre not said here	bailiff's son			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
7	row away	past	a boy not said here			the fiord	to the place; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across fiord=Trajectory
8	meet	past · perfect	the boy	Andras				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent andras=Co-Agent

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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