The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 55

And Ian Direach knew that all this he owed to Gille Mairtean the fox, and he made a compact with him that he might choose any beast out of his herds, whenever hunger seized him, and that henceforth no arrow should be let fly at him or at any of his race.

Who acts: Ian, hunger, that · What happens: know, owe, make, choose, seize, let · To what, where: this, Gille, compact, beast, herds, Ian

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, hunger, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 knew	cc
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
3	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ian	flat
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 this	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 this	det:predet
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 knew	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 owed	nsubj
9	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 this	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Gille	case
11	Gille	Gille	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 owed	obl
12	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Gille	flat
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Gille	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 compact	det
20	compact	compact	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 choose	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 choose	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 choose	aux
26	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	advcl
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 beast	det
28	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 choose	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 herds	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 herds	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 herds	nmod:poss
32	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 choose	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 seized	punct
34	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 seized	advmod
35	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seized	nsubj
36	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 herds	acl:relcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 seized	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 let	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 let	cc
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 let	nsubj:pass
41	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	46 let	advmod
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 arrow	det
43	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 let	nsubj:pass
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 let	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	aux:pass
46	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knew	conj
47	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	xcomp
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 fly	obl
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 any	cc
51	at	at	ADP	_	52 any	case
52	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	49 him	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 race	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 race	nmod:poss
55	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 any	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Ian	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	owe	past	Ian		Gille			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to gille=Goal
3	make	past	Ian	a compact			with Gille	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compact=Product
4	choose	might	Ian	any beast		Ian's herds		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
5	seize	past	hunger	Ian			whenever property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	let	should · passive		that			henceforth property	tree rules
7	fly	infinitive	that not said here				at Ian	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
8	race		Ian					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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