The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 101

The deer have come down from the hill, and it is time for me to give them chase.'

Who acts: deer, hill · What happens: come down, be, give, chase · To what, where: hill, time, deer

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 (deer, hill), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 time	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 time	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 time	cop
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 time	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 time	acl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 give	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	present · perfect	the deer			the hill	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location
2	is a	present	hill	time			for me	tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	the deer not said here		deer			tree rules
4	chase	infinitive	the deer not said here					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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