The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 83

There he gathered the three most beautiful oranges he could find, and turned to go back to the gate.

Who acts: Désiré · What happens: gather, find, turn, go back · To what, where: three beautiful oranges

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Désiré), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 gathered	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oranges	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 oranges	nummod
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 beautiful	advmod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 oranges	amod
8	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gathered	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 oranges	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 turned	xcomp
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 gate	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gate	det
20	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	Désiré	the three beautiful oranges	there		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Theme
2	find	could	Désiré	the three beautiful oranges not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Topic
3	turn	past	Désiré not said here				tree rules
4	go back	to-infinitive	Désiré not said here			to the gate result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to gate=Result

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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