The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 107

In about half an hour the dogs grew tired of barking, or perhaps the bacon was eaten up and there was no smell to excite them.

Who acts: dogs, smell · What happens: grow, bark, eat up, be, excite · To what, where: bacon, dogs

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, smell), 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	_	5 hour	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 half	advmod
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 hour	det:predet
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 barking	mark
11	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tired	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eaten	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 eaten	cc
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 eaten	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bacon	det
16	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eaten	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eaten	aux:pass
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grew	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 eaten	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eaten	advcl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 smell	det
24	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 excite	mark
26	excite	excite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 smell	acl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 excite	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the dogs			hour	tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bark	gerund	the dogs not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat up	past · passive		the bacon			perhaps property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	be	past	no smell		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	excite	to-infinitive	no smell not said here	dogs = dog				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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