The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 46

He would never go near a pool again, never, thought he; and seeing that the moor stretched far away in the opposite direction from which he had come, he marched bravely on till he got to a small cottage, which seemed too tumbledown for the stones to hold together many hours longer.

Who acts: dog, moor, small cottage · What happens: not go, not think, see, stretch, come, march · To what, where: pool, dog, moor, opposite direction, tumbledown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, moor, small cottage), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 thought	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seeing	cc
16	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ;	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 marched	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moor	det
19	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 marched	nsubj
20	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 moor	acl
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 away	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 stretched	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 direction	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 direction	det
25	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 direction	amod
26	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stretched	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 direction	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 marched	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 marched	nsubj
34	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seeing	ccomp
35	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	34 marched	advmod
36	on	on	SCONJ	_	39 got	mark
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 got	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 got	nsubj
39	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 marched	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 cottage	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 cottage	det
42	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 cottage	amod
43	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 got	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 seemed	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 seemed	nsubj
46	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 cottage	acl:relcl
47	too	too	ADV	_	48 tumbledown	advmod
48	tumbledown	tumbledown	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seemed	obj
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 stones	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 stones	det
51	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 tumbledown	nmod
52	to	to	PART	_	53 hold	mark
53	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 tumbledown	acl
54	together	together	ADV	_	53 hold	advmod
55	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 hours	amod
56	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 longer	obl:unmarked
57	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 hold	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	would	dog		a pool	again		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near pool=Location
2	not think speech: other	past	dog not said here	dog				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	see	gerund	dog not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stretch	participle		the moor not said here	the opposite direction		away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	come	past · perfect	dog		the opposite direction			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location
6	march	past	the moor				bravely property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	past	dog				to a small cottage result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cottage=Result
8	seem	past	a small cottage	tumbledown			for the stones	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tumbledown=Attribute
9	hold together	to-infinitive	a small cottage not said here	tumbledown not said here			long, together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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