The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 6

The words make her look round--she had seen no black casket, but as the cats continued their cry she peered into several corners that had remained unnoticed, and at length discovered a little black box, so small and so black, that it might easily have been passed over.

Who acts: words, girl, cats · What happens: make, look round, see, continue, peer, remain · To what, where: girl, black casket, cry, several corners, little black box, length

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 (words, girl, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 make	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 casket	det
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 casket	amod
13	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 peered	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 peered	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 continued	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cats	det
18	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 continued	nsubj
19	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 peered	advcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cry	nmod:poss
21	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 continued	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 peered	nsubj
23	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 corners	case
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 corners	amod
26	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 peered	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 remained	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 remained	aux
29	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 corners	acl:relcl
30	unnoticed	unnoticed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 remained	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 discovered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 discovered	cc
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 length	case
34	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 discovered	obl
35	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 peered	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 box	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 box	amod
38	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 box	amod
39	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 discovered	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 small	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 small	advmod
42	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 discovered	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 black	cc
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 black	advmod
45	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 small	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 passed	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 passed	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 passed	nsubj:pass
49	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 passed	aux
50	easily	easily	ADV	_	53 passed	advmod
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 passed	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 passed	aux:pass
53	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 discovered	conj
54	over	over	ADP	_	53 passed	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	the words	girl			tree rules
2	look round	infinitive	girl not said here			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past · perfect	girl	no black casket			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer casket=Stimulus
4	continue	past	the cats	cats's cry			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
5	peer	past	girl			into several corners	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into corner=Theme
6	remain	past · perfect · passive		several corners		unnoticed property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
7	discover	past		a little black box	length		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic
8	pass over	might · perfect · passive		box		easily property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
9	cry		cats = cat				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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