The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 80
However, she was silent, and taking the sieve went down to the well with it.
Who acts: woman, taking · What happens: be, take, go down · To what, where: sieve
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, taking), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 silent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 silent | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | cop |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 went | csubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sieve | det |
| 10 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 silent | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 well | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 well | det |
| 15 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | however, silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the sieve | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | taking | to the well; with sieve; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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