The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 100

'I am going away to hunt,' said the king one morning while he was watching Ian tend the bay colt in her stable. '

Who acts: I, Ian · What happens: go away, hunt, say, watch, tend · To what, where: king, Ian, bay colt, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ian), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 morning	nummod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl:unmarked
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 watching	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 watching	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 watching	aux
18	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 tend	advcl
19	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 watching	obj
20	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 colt	det
22	bay	bay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 colt	amod
23	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tend	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 stable	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stable	nmod:poss
26	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tend	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present · progressive	I				away property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past		the king		morning		tree rules
4	watch	past · progressive	Ian	Ian				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Theme
5	tend	present		the bay colt	friend's stable			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=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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