The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 28

In the morning the mother of Gudu's betrothed came out to milk her goats, and on going to the bushes where the largest one seemed entangled, she found out the trick.

Who acts: mother, largest one · What happens: betroth, come out, go, seem, entangle, find out · To what, where: mother, milk, bushes, trick

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 (mother, largest one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Gudu	case
7	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	appos
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Gudu	case
9	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mother	acl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 milk	mark
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 goats	nmod:poss
15	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 milk	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
18	on	on	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 found	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 bushes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bushes	det
22	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 going	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 seemed	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bushes	acl:relcl
28	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 seemed	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 found	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 trick	det
34	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	betroth	participle		the mother not said here				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	come out	past	the mother	milk		morning	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	go	gerund	mother not said here		the bushes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bush=Initial_Location
4	seem	past	the largest one					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	entangle	participle	the largest one not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	find out	past	mother	the trick				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic

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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