The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 97

Picking up the black yarn, she stood facing the east and dipped it in the river, and in an instant it grew white as snow, then turning to the west, she held the white yarn in the water, and it became as black as a crow's wing.

Who acts: woman, east · What happens: pick up, stand, face, dip, grow, turn · To what, where: black yarn, east, river, instant, west, white yarn

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, east), 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	Picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stood	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Picking	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yarn	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yarn	amod
5	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picking	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Picking	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stood	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 east	det
11	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 facing	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dipped	cc
13	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dipped	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dipped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 instant	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 instant	det
22	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grew	nsubj
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grew	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 snow	case
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turning	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 turning	advmod
30	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 grew	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 west	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 west	det
33	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turning	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 held	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 held	nsubj
36	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 yarn	det
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 yarn	amod
39	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 held	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 water	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 water	det
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 yarn	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 became	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 became	cc
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 became	nsubj
46	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 black	advmod
48	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 became	xcomp
49	as	as	ADP	_	53 wing	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 crow	det
51	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 wing	nmod:poss
52	's	's	PART	_	51 crow	case
53	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 black	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	gerund	woman not said here	the black yarn				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yarn=Topic
2	stand	past	woman					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	face	gerund	woman not said here	the east				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme east=Destination
4	dip	past	woman not said here	east	the river			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in river=Trajectory
5	grow	past	east		a instant		as snow; white property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
6	turn	gerund	east not said here		the west	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to west=Trajectory
7	hold	past	woman	the white yarn	the water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme in water=Location
8	become	past	east				black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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