The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 24

He washed and rubbed himself that night, as the raven had told him, and the next morning he entered the chamber where the knight's daughter was sitting.

Who acts: Ian, daughter · What happens: wash, rub, tell, enter, sit · To what, where: Ian, raven, chamber · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ian, daughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 washed	nsubj
2	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rubbed	cc
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 washed	conj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 rubbed	obj
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbed	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 raven	det
11	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rubbed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 entered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 entered	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entered	obl:unmarked
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entered	nsubj
21	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 washed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chamber	det
23	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entered	obj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 sitting	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 knight	det
26	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 daughter	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 knight	case
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sitting	aux
30	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 chamber	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	wash	past	Ian				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rub	past	Ian not said here	Ian		night	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the raven	Ian		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
4	enter	past	Ian	the chamber		morning	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination
5	sit	past · progressive	the knight's daughter				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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