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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 10

She walked on and on and on, till she reached the flowery meadow, and there, suddenly, something happened, she never knew what, but she was sitting on the wall of the well in her stepmother's yard.

Who acts: girl, something · What happens: walk, reach, happen, not know, sit · To what, where: flowery meadow, wall

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, something), 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

nsubjadvmodccconjccconjpunctmarknsubjconjdetamodobjpunctccadvclpunctconjpunctnsubjparataxispunctnsubjadvmodconjobjpunctccnsubjauxadvclcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootShePRONwalkedVERBonADVandCCONJonADVandCCONJonADV,PUNCTtillSCONJshePRONreachedVERBtheDETfloweryADJmeadowNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthereADV,PUNCTsuddenlyADV,PUNCTsomethingPRONhappenedVERB,PUNCTshePRONneverADVknewVERBwhatPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJshePRONwasAUXsittingVERBonADPtheDETwallNOUNofADPtheDETwellNOUNinADPherPRONstepmotherNOUN'sPARTyardNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 walkednsubj
2walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ononADV_2 walkedadvmod
4andandCCONJ_5 oncc
5ononADV_3 onconj
6andandCCONJ_7 oncc
7ononADV_5 onconj
8,,PUNCT_11 reachedpunct
9tilltillSCONJ_11 reachedmark
10sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 reachednsubj
11reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 walkedconj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 meadowdet
13floweryfloweryADJDegree=Pos14 meadowamod
14meadowmeadowNOUNNumber=Sing11 reachedobj
15,,PUNCT_17 therepunct
16andandCCONJ_17 therecc
17therethereADVPronType=Dem2 walkedadvcl
18,,PUNCT_19 suddenlypunct
19suddenlysuddenlyADV_17 thereconj
20,,PUNCT_22 happenedpunct
21somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind22 happenednsubj
22happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 walkedparataxis
23,,PUNCT_26 knewpunct
24sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 knewnsubj
25neverneverADVPronType=Neg26 knewadvmod
26knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 happenedconj
27whatwhatPRONPronType=Int26 knewobj
28,,PUNCT_32 sittingpunct
29butbutCCONJ_32 sittingcc
30sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 sittingnsubj
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 sittingaux
32sittingsitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 walkedadvcl
33ononADP_35 wallcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 walldet
35wallwallNOUNNumber=Sing32 sittingobl
36ofofADP_38 wellcase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 welldet
38wellwellNOUNNumber=Sing35 wallnmod
39ininADP_43 yardcase
40herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 stepmothernmod:poss
41stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing43 yardnmod:poss
42's'sPART_41 stepmothercase
43yardyardNOUNNumber=Sing32 sittingobl
44..PUNCT_2 walkedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1walkpastgirlvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2reachpastgirlthe flowery meadowvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme
3happenpastsomethingvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4not knowpastgirlvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5sitpast · progressivegirlthe wall of the wellin girl's stepmother's yardvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location

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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