The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 100

When you reach the island of Big Women, sixteen boys will come to meet you, and will offer the horse food, and wish to take her saddle and bridle from her.

Who acts: you, sixteen boys · What happens: reach, come, meet, offer, wish, take · To what, where: island, you, horse food, saddle

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sixteen boys), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reach	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 reach	nsubj
3	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reach	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Women	case
7	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Women	amod
8	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 island	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reach	punct
10	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 boys	nummod
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 meet	mark
15	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 meet	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 offer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 offer	cc
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 offer	aux
20	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 food	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 food	compound
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 offer	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wish	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wish	cc
26	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wish	xcomp
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 saddle	nmod:poss
30	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bridle	cc
32	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saddle	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 take	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	present	you	the island of Big Women		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme
2	come	future	sixteen boys			tree rules
3	meet	to-infinitive	sixteen boys not said here	you		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
4	offer	future	sixteen boys not said here	the horse food		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent food=Theme
5	wish	present	sixteen boys not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	sixteen boys not said here	stable's saddle and bridle	from stable	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme from she=Initial_Location

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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