The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 108

'Oh, I can never do it!' she cried at last, and leaned her head against the loom and wept; but at that instant the door opened, and there entered, one behind another, a procession of cats.

Who acts: I, thing, door, cats · What happens: not do, cry, learn, weep, open, enter · To what, where: skein, last, head, instant, one, another

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 (I, thing, door, cats), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 do	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 leaned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 leaned	cc
17	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaned	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 loom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 loom	det
22	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leaned	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wept	cc
24	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 leaned	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 opened	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 opened	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 instant	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 instant	det
29	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 opened	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 opened	nsubj
32	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 entered	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 entered	cc
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 entered	advmod
36	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 opened	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 entered	obj
39	behind	behind	ADP	_	40 another	case
40	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	38 one	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 procession	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 procession	det
43	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 entered	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 cats	case
45	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 procession	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do	can	I	skein			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	thing		last		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	learn	past		thing's head		against the loom	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
4	weep	past					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	open	past	the door		that instant		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at instant=Location
6	enter	past	the door not said here	one	another; there	a procession of cats obl	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination
7	proceed		cats				nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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