The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 58

So Ian Direach entered, and tended so well and carefully all the birds and beasts, that the giant was better satisfied than ever he had been, and at length he thought that he might even be trusted to feed the falcon.

Who acts: Ian, giant · What happens: enter, tend, be, think, trust, feed · To what, where: birds, length, giant, falcon · 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 (Ian, giant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 entered	advmod
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 entered	nsubj
3	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ian	flat
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tended	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tended	cc
7	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 tended	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carefully	cc
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 well	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 birds	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tended	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beasts	cc
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 birds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 satisfied	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 satisfied	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 satisfied	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 satisfied	cop
22	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 satisfied	advmod
23	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tended	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 ever	case
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 satisfied	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 been	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 been	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 satisfied	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thought	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 length	case
32	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 trusted	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 trusted	nsubj:pass
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 trusted	aux
38	even	even	ADV	_	40 trusted	advmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 trusted	aux:pass
40	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 thought	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 feed	mark
42	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 trusted	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 falcon	det
44	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 feed	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Ian					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tend	past	Ian not said here	all birds and beasts			well property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
3	is	past	the giant				satisfied, well property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	giant			length		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	trust	might · passive		giant				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	feed	to-infinitive			the falcon			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Recipient

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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