The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 6

It was night when they reached the village where dwelt the mother of Gudu's betrothed, who laid meat and millet porridge before them.

Who acts: portion, people, village · What happens: be, reach, dwell, betroth, lay · To what, where: night, village, mother, meat

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 (portion, people, village), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	cop
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 dwelt	advmod
10	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 village	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwelt	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Gudu	case
14	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mother	appos
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Gudu	case
16	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dwelt	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 laid	nsubj
19	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 village	conj
20	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 porridge	cc
22	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 porridge	compound
23	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meat	conj
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	portion	night		tree rules
2	reach	past	people	the village		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme
3	dwell	participle		the mother		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mother=Location
4	betroth	participle				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	lay	past	the village	meat and millet porridge	before people	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme before they=Destination

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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