The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 56

His eyes were heavy with sleep, and his body ached with the long strain, but, without pausing to rest, he kindled a fire on is hearth, and quickly filling a pot with water, threw in the herbs and left them to boil.

Who acts: eyes, body, deal · What happens: be, ache, pause, rest, kindle, fill · To what, where: fire, hearth, pot, herbs, eyes

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 (eyes, body, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavy	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ached	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ached	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ached	nsubj
11	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 strain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 strain	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 strain	amod
15	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ached	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kindled	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 kindled	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 but	punct
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 pausing	mark
20	pausing	pause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 kindled	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rest	mark
22	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pausing	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pausing	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kindled	nsubj
25	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ached	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kindled	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 hearth	case
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hearth	cop
30	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kindled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 filling	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 filling	cc
33	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	34 filling	advmod
34	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 kindled	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pot	det
36	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 filling	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 water	case
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 filling	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 threw	punct
40	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kindled	parataxis
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 herbs	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 herbs	det
43	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 threw	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 left	cc
45	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 threw	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 left	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 boil	mark
48	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 left	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	deal's eyes			with sleep; heavy property	tree rules
2	ache	past	deal's body			with the long strain	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	pause	gerund	deal not said here				tree rules
4	rest	to-infinitive	deal not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kindle	past	deal	a fire			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
6	is	present			hearth		tree rules
7	fill	gerund	deal not said here	a pot		with water; quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient with water=Instrument
8	throw	past			the herbs		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in herb=Destination
9	leave	past		eyes = eye			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
10	boil	to-infinitive					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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