The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 19

As might be expected, in a very little while the poor girl's thread snapped, and the old woman, who had been watching from behind a door, seized her stepdaughter by her shoulders, and threw her into the well.

Who acts: old woman, thread · What happens: expect, snap, watch, seize, throw · To what, where: door, stepdaughter, woman, well

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 (old woman, thread), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 expected	mark
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 expected	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 expected	aux:pass
4	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 seized	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 little	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 little	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 little	advmod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 expected	conj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 snapped	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thread	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 girl	case
15	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 snapped	nsubj
16	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 little	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seized	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seized	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seized	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 watching	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 watching	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 watching	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 watching	aux
26	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 woman	acl
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 door	case
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 watching	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct
32	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 stepdaughter	nmod:poss
34	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seized	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 shoulders	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shoulders	nmod:poss
37	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 seized	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 threw	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 threw	cc
40	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seized	conj
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 threw	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 well	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 well	det
44	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 threw	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	might · passive	the old woman not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»
2	snap	past	the poor girl's thread				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	past · perfect · progressive	the old woman		a door		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	seize	past	the old woman	woman's stepdaughter		by woman's shoulders	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Theme
5	throw	past	the old woman not said here	woman		into the well result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into well=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 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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