The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

The outhouse was in a very dirty state, as no one had been near it since the girl had fallen down the well; but she scrubbed and swept till everything was clean again, and then she placed the little casket on a small shelf in the corner.

Who acts: outhouse, girl, everything · What happens: be, fall down, scrub, sweep, place · To what, where: dirty state, state, well, little casket, small shelf

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 (outhouse, girl, everything), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 outhouse	det
2	outhouse	outhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 state	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 state	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 state	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 state	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 dirty	advmod
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 state	amod
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 state	appos
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 it	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 it	cop
15	near	near	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 fallen	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fallen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fallen	aux
21	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 one	acl
22	down	down	ADP	_	24 well	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 well	det
24	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fallen	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 scrubbed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 scrubbed	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 scrubbed	nsubj
28	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 state	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 swept	cc
30	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scrubbed	conj
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 clean	mark
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 clean	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 clean	cop
34	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 swept	xcomp
35	again	again	ADV	_	34 clean	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 placed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 placed	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 placed	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 placed	nsubj
40	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scrubbed	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 casket	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 casket	amod
43	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 placed	obj
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 shelf	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 shelf	det
46	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 shelf	amod
47	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 placed	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 corner	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 corner	det
50	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 shelf	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 state	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the outhouse		a dirty state			tree rules
2	is	past · perfect			state			tree rules
3	fall down	past · perfect	the girl	the well				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient well=Result
4	scrub	past	girl					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	sweep	past	girl not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	everything			again	clean property	tree rules
7	place	past	girl	the little casket	a small shelf in the corner	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent casket=Theme on shelf=Destination

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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