The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 107

But when she began she found that the skein tangled and broke every moment.

Who acts: thing, skein · What happens: begin, find, tangle, break

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, skein), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 tangled	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skein	det
9	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tangled	nsubj
10	tangled	tangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 broke	cc
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tangled	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broke	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	begin	past	thing		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	find	past	thing		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	tangle	past	the skein		tree rules
4	break	past	the skein not said here	moment	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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