The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 94

They were kind little children, and wanted to play with him; but, alas! the poor fellow had never played in his life, and thought they wanted to tease him, and flew straight into the milk-pan, and then into the butter-dish, and from that into the meal- barrel, and at last, terrified at the noise and confusion, right out of the door, and hid himself in the snow amongst the bushes at the back of the house.

Who acts: bones · What happens: be, want, play, not play, think, tease · To what, where: kind little children, poor fellow, life, fortune, milk pan, snow · 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 (bones), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 children	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 children	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 children	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 play	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 played	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 played	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
16	alas	alas	INTJ	_	23 played	discourse
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 fellow	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fellow	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellow	amod
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 played	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 played	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 played	advmod
23	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wanted	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 life	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 played	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thought	cc
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wanted	conj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thought	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tease	mark
33	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 wanted	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tease	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flew	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 flew	cc
37	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thought	parataxis
38	straight	straight	ADV	_	43 pan	advmod
39	into	into	ADP	_	43 pan	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 pan	det
41	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pan	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 milk	punct
43	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flew	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 dish	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 dish	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 dish	advmod
47	into	into	ADP	_	51 dish	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 dish	det
49	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 dish	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 butter	punct
51	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pan	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 terrified	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 terrified	cc
54	from	from	ADP	_	55 that	case
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	66 terrified	nsubj
56	into	into	ADP	_	60 barrel	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 barrel	det
58	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 barrel	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 meal	punct
60	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 that	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 terrified	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 terrified	cc
63	at	at	ADP	_	64 last	case
64	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 terrified	amod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 last	punct
66	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flew	conj
67	at	at	ADP	_	69 noise	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 noise	det
69	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 terrified	obl
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 confusion	cc
71	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 noise	conj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 door	punct
73	right	right	ADV	_	77 door	advmod
74	out	out	ADP	_	77 door	case
75	of	of	ADP	_	77 door	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 door	det
77	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 terrified	obl
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 hid	punct
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 hid	cc
80	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 flew	conj
81	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	80 hid	obj
82	in	in	ADP	_	84 snow	case
83	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	84 snow	det
84	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 hid	obl
85	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	87 bushes	case
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	87 bushes	det
87	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	80 hid	obl
88	at	at	ADP	_	90 back	case
89	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	90 back	det
90	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 hid	obl
91	of	of	ADP	_	93 house	case
92	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	93 house	det
93	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	90 back	nmod
94	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 children	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bones = bone	kind little children			tree rules
2	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive				with fortune	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	not play	past · perfect · passive		the poor fellow	fortune's life		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	want	past	bones = bone				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	tease not said to happen	to-infinitive	bones = bone not said here	fortune			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	fly	past		the milk pan and the butter dish			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pan=Theme
9	hide	past		fortune	the snow	amongst the bushes; at the back of the house	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in snow=Location

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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