The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 45

'How absurd to walk about on such a pouring night, dressed up like that,' she remarked crossly, and roughly pulled off the wreath as she spoke, to place it on her own daughter.

Who acts: stepmother, Wreath · What happens: walk, dress up, remark, pull off, speak, place · To what, where: wreath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, Wreath), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 absurd	advmod
3	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 remarked	advcl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 night	case
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 night	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	pouring	pouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 night	compound
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dressed	punct
13	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 walk	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 dressed	compound:prt
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 dressed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remarked	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 remarked	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remarked	nsubj
20	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	crossly	crossly	ADV	_	20 remarked	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pulled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pulled	cc
24	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	25 pulled	advmod
25	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 remarked	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 pulled	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wreath	det
28	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pulled	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 spoke	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spoke	nsubj
31	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pulled	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 place	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 place	mark
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remarked	obl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 place	nsubj
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 daughter	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 daughter	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 daughter	amod
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 place	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	to-infinitive	stepmother not said here		night	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dress up	participle				like that	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remark speech: assert	past	stepmother			crossly property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pull off	participle		the wreath		roughly property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Eventuality
5	speak speech: other	past	stepmother				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	place		Wreath			on stepmother's own daughter	tree rules

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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