The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 64

She also had asses laden with precious things to carry away, and so had the eldest sister, when they reached the castle where she had been kept a prisoner.

Who acts: sister, asses · What happens: have, lade, carry away, reach, keep · To what, where: asses, eldest sister, castle, sister

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 (sister, asses), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
5	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 asses	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 things	case
7	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laden	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 carry	mark
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 things	acl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 carry	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sister	det
17	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 sister	amod
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reached	punct
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 reached	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reached	nsubj
22	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sister	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 kept	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kept	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 kept	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 kept	aux:pass
29	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 castle	acl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 prisoner	det
31	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	sister	asses		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Patient
2	lade	participle		asses not said here	with precious things	tree rules
3	carry away	to-infinitive			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	sister not said here	the eldest sister		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
5	reach	past	asses = ass	the castle		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
6	keep	past · perfect · passive		sister		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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