The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 28

On a morning when the leaves were yellow in the trees of the glen, Ian slung his bow over his shoulder, and filling his quiver with arrows, went on to the hill in search of game.

Who acts: leaves, Ian · What happens: be, sling, fill, go on, quiver, search · To what, where: trees, bow, shoulder, quiver, game

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 (leaves, 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slung	obl
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 yellow	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaves	det
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 yellow	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 yellow	cop
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 yellow	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 glen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 glen	det
14	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trees	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
16	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 slung	nsubj
17	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bow	nmod:poss
19	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slung	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 shoulder	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulder	nmod:poss
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slung	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 filling	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 filling	cc
25	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 slung	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 quiver	nmod:poss
27	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 filling	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 arrows	case
29	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 filling	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 slung	conj
32	on	on	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 hill	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hill	det
35	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 search	case
37	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hill	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 game	case
39	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 search	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 slung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the leaves		the trees of the glen		yellow property	tree rules
2	sling	past	Ian	Ian's bow	Ian's shoulder	morning		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bow=Theme over shoulder=Destination
3	fill	gerund	Ian not said here	Ian's quiver			with arrows	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent quiver=Patient with arrow=Instrument
4	go on	past	Ian not said here				to the hill in search of game	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	quiver		Ian					nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	search			game				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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