The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 97

At last she took them down to the shore to see a pleasure boat which her husband had had made for her; and here, the woman seizing her opportunity, stole softly behind the girl and pushed her off the rock on which she was standing, into the deep water, where she instantly sank to the bottom.

Who acts: woman, husband, pleasure boat · What happens: take down, see, have, make, seize, steal · To what, where: daughter, last, pleasure boat, opportunity, woman, rock

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 (woman, husband, pleasure boat), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 shore	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boat	det
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boat	compound
14	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	obj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	aux
19	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 boat	acl:relcl
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stole	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 here	cc
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 stole	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stole	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stole	nsubj
29	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 woman	acl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 opportunity	nmod:poss
31	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seizing	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
33	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
34	softly	softly	ADV	_	33 stole	advmod
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 girl	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 girl	det
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stole	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pushed	cc
39	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stole	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pushed	obj
41	off	off	ADP	_	43 rock	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rock	det
43	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pushed	obl
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 standing	obl
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 standing	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 standing	aux
48	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 rock	acl:relcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 water	punct
50	into	into	ADP	_	53 water	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 water	det
52	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 water	amod
53	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 standing	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 sank	punct
55	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 sank	advmod
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 sank	nsubj
57	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	58 sank	advmod
58	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 water	conj
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 bottom	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 bottom	det
61	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sank	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take down	past	woman	daughter	last	to the shore	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	woman not said here	a pleasure boat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus
3	have	past · perfect	woman's husband	a pleasure boat			tree rules
4	make	participle	a pleasure boat not said here			for woman	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary
5	seize	gerund	the woman not said here	woman's opportunity			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
6	steal	past	the woman		here	behind the girl; softly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind girl=Location
7	push	past	the woman not said here	woman	the rock		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme off rock=Trajectory
8	stand	past · progressive	woman		the rock	into the deep water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
9	sink	past	woman			to the bottom; instantly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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