The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 5

She hesitated long, and went first to one and then to another, when she heard the cats' voices calling: 'Take the black! take the black!'

Who acts: girl · What happens: hesitate, go, hear, call, take · To what, where: one, voices, black · Speech: someone speaks here

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 hesitated	nsubj
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hesitated	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	conj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 another	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 another	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cats	det
19	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 voices	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 cats	case
21	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heard	obj
22	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 heard	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct
25	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 calling	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 black	det
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Take	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Take	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 black	det
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 take	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	girl			long property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	girl not said here		one	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location
3	hear	past	girl	the cats's voices			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
4	call speech: assert	gerund	girl not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	infinitive		the black			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent black=Theme
6	take	infinitive		the black			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent black=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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