The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 20

While he was doing this, Isuro collected sticks for a fire, and when it was kindled, Gudu hastened to another hut to steal a pot which he filled with water from the river, and, planting two branches in the ground, they hung the pot with the meat in it over the fire.

Who acts: two, Isuro, pot, branches · What happens: do, collect, kindle, hasten, steal, fill · To what, where: this, sticks, rabbit, hut, pot, river

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, Isuro, pot, branches), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 doing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 collected	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 doing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct
7	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 collected	nsubj
8	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collected	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collected	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kindled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kindled	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 kindled	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kindled	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kindled	aux:pass
18	kindled	kindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 collected	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Gudu	punct
20	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 kindled	obl
21	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 kindled	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 hut	case
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 hut	det
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hastened	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 steal	mark
26	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hastened	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pot	det
28	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steal	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 filled	nsubj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 filled	nsubj
31	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pot	acl:relcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 filled	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 river	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 river	det
36	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 filled	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 planting	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 planting	cc
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 planting	punct
40	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 collected	advcl
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 branches	nummod
42	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 planting	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 ground	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ground	det
45	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 planting	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 hung	punct
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hung	nsubj
48	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 collected	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 pot	det
50	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obj
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 meat	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 meat	det
53	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obl
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hung	obl
56	over	over	ADP	_	58 fire	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 fire	det
58	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	two	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	collect	past	Isuro	sticks		for a fire	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	kindle	past · passive		rabbit		Gudu obl	vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	hasten	participle			another hut		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination
5	steal	to-infinitive		a pot			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme
6	fill	past	a pot		the river	with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
7	plant	gerund	Isuro not said here	two branches	the ground		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in ground=Destination
8	hang	past	branches = branch	the pot	the fire	with the meat; in rabbit	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient with meat=Instrument

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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