The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 3

She lifted up one and looked at it, and then put it down to examine another yet more beautiful.

Who acts: girl · What happens: lift up, look, put down, examine · To what, where: one, loft, another

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 lifted	compound:prt
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lifted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looked	cc
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 put	advmod
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lifted	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 put	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 examine	mark
16	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	advcl
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 examine	obj
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 beautiful	advmod
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 examine	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	girl	one			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	look	past	girl not said here			at loft	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	put down	infinitive	girl not said here	loft	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	examine	to-infinitive	girl not said here	another		beautiful property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme

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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