The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 25

Every inch of the way she trod the path which her stepsister had trodden, and saw the things which she had seen; but there the likeness ended.

Who acts: inch, likeness · What happens: tread, see, end · To what, where: path, stepsister, things

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 (inch, likeness), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 inch	det
2	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trod	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inch	nmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trod	nsubj
7	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trod	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 trodden	obj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stepsister	nmod:poss
12	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trodden	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trodden	aux
14	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 path	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trod	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 things	det
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 saw	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seen	nsubj:pass
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 things	acl:relcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 ended	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 ended	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 ended	expl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 likeness	det
28	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ended	nsubj
29	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trod	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 trod	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tread	past	every inch of the way	the path		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location path=Theme
2	tread	past · perfect · passive		inch's stepsister		tree rules
3	see	past	every inch of the way not said here	the things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	see	past · perfect · passive		the things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	end	past	the likeness		there	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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