The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 54

By the time she reached the spot where her stepfather had been cutting the wood the girl was in a very bad temper indeed, and when she caught sight of the axe, there were the three little doves, with drooping heads and soiled, bedraggled feathers, sitting on the handle.

Who acts: stepmother, stepfather, girl · What happens: reach, cut, be, catch, droop, soil · To what, where: spot, wood, bad temper, sight, three little doves, handle

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, stepfather, 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spot	det
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 cutting	advmod
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stepfather	nmod:poss
10	stepfather	stepfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cutting	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cutting	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cutting	aux
13	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spot	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cutting	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girl	det
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 temper	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 temper	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 temper	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 temper	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 bad	advmod
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 temper	amod
23	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cutting	parataxis
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 cutting	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 were	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 were	cc
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 caught	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 caught	nsubj
29	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 were	advcl
30	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caught	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 axe	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 axe	det
33	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sight	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 caught	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 were	expl
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 doves	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 doves	det
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 doves	nummod
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 doves	amod
40	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reached	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 heads	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 heads	case
43	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 heads	amod
44	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 doves	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 soiled	cc
46	soiled	soil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 doves	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 feathers	punct
48	bedraggled	bedraggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 feathers	amod
49	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 doves	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 sitting	punct
51	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 reached	advcl
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 handle	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 handle	det
54	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sitting	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	stepmother	the spot		time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
2	cut	past · perfect · progressive	stepmother's stepfather	the wood			indeed property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Product
3	is	past	the girl		a bad temper			tree rules
4	catch	past	stepmother	sight of the axe				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
5	is a	past		the three little doves and drooping heads and bedraggled feathers				tree rules
6	droop	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	soil	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
8	bedraggle	participle						tree rules
9	sit	gerund	stepmother not said here		the handle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on handle=Location
10	sight			the axe				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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