The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 80

Without waiting for orders, they sat down in the nest and, crossing their legs comfortably, began to prepare the suit of clothes for Bellah.

Who acts: orders · What happens: wait, sit down, cross, begin, prepare · To what, where: nest, legs, suit

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 waiting	mark
2	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 orders	case
4	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waiting	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 waiting	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nest	det
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crossing	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crossing	punct
14	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 legs	nmod:poss
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crossing	obj
17	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	14 crossing	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 prepare	mark
21	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 suit	det
23	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prepare	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 clothes	case
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 suit	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 Bellah	case
27	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 clothes	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	orders = order not said here			for orders	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	orders = order		the nest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
3	cross	gerund	orders = order not said here	orders's legs		comfortably property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	begin	past	orders = order not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	prepare	to-infinitive	orders = order not said here	the suit of clothes for Bellah			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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