The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 78

The smith proposed that they should first have a drink together, and the horse was tied up by the spring whilst they went indoors.

Who acts: smith, shoes · What happens: propose, have, tie up, go · To what, where: drink, horse

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, shoes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proposed	nsubj
3	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 proposed	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drink	det
10	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	together	together	ADV	_	8 have	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tied	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tied	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tied	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tied	aux:pass
17	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 proposed	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 tied	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 spring	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spring	det
21	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tied	obl
22	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	24 went	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tied	advcl
25	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	the smith				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	should	shoes = shoe	a drink		first, together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
3	tie up	past · passive		the horse	spring		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	go	past	shoes = shoe			indoors property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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