The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 59

So the cat and the hen went straight off to the old woman, who was still in bed.

Who acts: cat, old woman · What happens: go, be · To what, where: bed

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 (cat, old woman), 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	_	7 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hen	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hen	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	conj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 off	advmod
9	off	off	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bed	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 bed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bed	cop
17	still	still	ADV	_	19 bed	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 bed	case
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woman	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the cat and the hen					to the old woman and bed; off property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the old woman and bed			bed	still		tree rules

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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