The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 115

'Who has taught you this wisdom?' asked the old woman, after she had passed her hands twice or thrice over the cloth and could find no roughness anywhere.

Who acts: woman · What happens: teach, ask, pass, find · To what, where: wisdom, you, old woman, hands, cloth, roughness

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 (woman), 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	_	4 taught	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 taught	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	aux
4	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 taught	obj
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 wisdom	det
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passed	punct
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 passed	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 passed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 passed	aux
18	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	ccomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passed	obj
21	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 passed	advmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 thrice	cc
23	thrice	thrice	ADV	_	21 twice	conj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 cloth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cloth	det
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 find	cc
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 find	aux
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 passed	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 roughness	det
31	roughness	roughness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 find	obj
32	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 find	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · perfect · passive		this wisdom	you			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past			the old woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pass	past · perfect	woman	woman's hands		the cloth	twice property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over cloth=Destination
4	find	could	woman not said here	no roughness			anywhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roughness=Topic

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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