The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 17

But the fox was not there to hear this insult, for she had gone off to a neighbouring fowl-house, where she had noticed some fat young chickens the day before.

Who acts: fox, traitor · What happens: be, go off, neighbour, notice · To what, where: fat young chickens

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 (fox, traitor), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 hear	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 hear	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 insult	det
10	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 hear	advcl
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 gone	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 house	det
19	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 house	amod
20	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 fowl	punct
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gone	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 noticed	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 noticed	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 noticed	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 noticed	aux
27	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 gone	conj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 chickens	det
29	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chickens	amod
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chickens	amod
31	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 noticed	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chickens	nmod:unmarked
34	before	before	ADV	_	27 noticed	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox		there	hear property	tree rules
2	go off	past · perfect	traitor			to a neighbouring fowl house	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
4	notice	past · perfect	traitor	some fat young chickens the day		before property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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