The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 51

A thick wood lay in front of him, and, fastening the bridle tightly to a tree, he flung himself on his hands and knees and began to hunt for the treasure.

Who acts: thick wood, deal · What happens: lay, fasten, fling, begin, hunt · To what, where: front, bridle, deal, hands

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick wood, deal), 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	3 wood	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fastening	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fastening	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fastening	punct
12	fastening	fasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bridle	det
14	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fastening	obj
15	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	12 fastening	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fastening	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flung	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flung	nsubj
21	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 flung	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 hands	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hands	nmod:poss
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flung	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knees	cc
27	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hands	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flung	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 hunt	mark
31	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 treasure	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 treasure	det
34	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hunt	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a thick wood		front of deal		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination
2	fasten	gerund	a thick wood not said here	the bridle		to a tree; tightly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bridle=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
3	fling	past	deal	deal	deal's hands and knees		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on hand=Destination
4	begin	past	deal not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hunt	to-infinitive	deal not said here			for the treasure	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for treasure=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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