The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 25

So she walked on through the meadow till she came to an old tumbledown fence--so old that it was a wonder it managed to stand up at all, and it looked as if it depended for support on the old man's beard that climbed all over it.

Who acts: woman, heart, it, beard · What happens: walk on, come, be, manage, stand up, look · To what, where: meadow, old tumbledown fence, wonder, all, heart

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, heart, it, beard), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 meadow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 fence	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fence	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fence	amod
14	tumbledown	tumbledown	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fence	compound
15	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 old	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 old	advmod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fence	amod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 wonder	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wonder	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wonder	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wonder	det
23	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 old	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 managed	nsubj
25	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wonder	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stand	mark
27	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 managed	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 stand	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 stand	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 looked	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 looked	nsubj
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 depended	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 depended	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 depended	nsubj
38	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 looked	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 support	case
40	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 depended	obl
41	on	on	ADP	_	46 beard	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 man	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 man	amod
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beard	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 man	case
46	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 depended	obl
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 climbed	nsubj
48	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 beard	acl:relcl
49	all	all	ADV	_	51 it	advmod
50	over	over	ADP	_	51 it	case
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 climbed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	woman		the meadow		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory
2	come	past	woman		a old tumbledown fence		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fence=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	heart	a wonder			tree rules
4	manage	past	heart	a wonder not said here			tree rules
5	stand up	to-infinitive	heart not said here		all		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location
6	look	past	it				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	depend	past	it			for support; on the old man's beard	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on beard=Theme
8	climb	past	the old man's beard		heart		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory

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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