The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 24

So she bade her own daughter sit on the edge of the well, and threw her into the water, exactly as she had done to the other girl; and, exactly as before, the flowery meadow lay at the bottom.

Who acts: woman, own daughter, flowery meadow · What happens: bade, sit, throw, do, lay · To what, where: edge, woman, water, bottom

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 (woman, own daughter, flowery meadow), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 bade	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	amod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	nsubj
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 well	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 well	det
13	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 done	punct
22	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	26 done	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 threw	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 girl	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 done	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 lay	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lay	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 and	punct
34	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	40 meadow	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 before	case
36	before	before	ADV	_	34 exactly	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 exactly	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 meadow	det
39	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 meadow	amod
40	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lay	nsubj
41	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	parataxis
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 bottom	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bottom	det
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lay	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bade	past	woman				tree rules
2	sit	present	woman's own daughter		the edge of the well		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
3	throw	past		woman		into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into water=Result
4	do	past · perfect	woman			to the other girl; exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lay	present	the flowery meadow		the bottom		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at bottom=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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