The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 50

But no procession of cats entered the room to weave a web of fine cloth, and at sunset she only brought back to her mistress an armful of dirty, tangled wool.

Who acts: procession, cats · What happens: enter, weave, bring back, proceed · To what, where: room, web, mistress

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 (procession, cats), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 entered	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 procession	det
3	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cats	case
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 procession	nmod
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 weave	mark
10	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 entered	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 web	det
12	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cloth	case
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloth	amod
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 web	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brought	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 sunset	case
19	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brought	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 entered	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 mistress	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mistress	nmod:poss
26	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 armful	det
28	armful	armful	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mistress	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 wool	case
30	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wool	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dirty	punct
32	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wool	amod
33	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 armful	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	enter	past	no procession of cats	the room			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	weave	to-infinitive	no procession of cats not said here	a web of fine cloth			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product
3	bring back	past	procession		procession's mistress	sunset	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mistress=Destination
4	proceed		cats				nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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