The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 82

Again and again she tried, but not a drop would remaining in the sieve, and she was just turning away in despair when a flock of sparrows flew down from the sky.

Who acts: woman, drop, flock · What happens: try, not remain, turn away, fly down · To what, where: sieve, despair, sky

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, drop, flock), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	5 tried	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 again	cc
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Again	conj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remaining	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 remaining	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 remaining	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drop	det
10	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remaining	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 remaining	aux
12	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tried	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sieve	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sieve	det
15	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remaining	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turning	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turning	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 turning	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turning	aux
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 turning	advmod
21	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 remaining	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 turning	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 despair	case
24	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turning	obl
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 flew	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 flock	det
27	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 sparrows	case
29	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flock	nmod
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turning	advcl
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 flew	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 sky	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sky	det
34	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	woman		again		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not remain	would	a drop	the sieve			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sieve=Location
3	turn away	past · progressive	woman	despair		away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fly down	past	a flock of sparrows	the sky		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sky=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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