The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 75

'It is that bright stone which fell out of the folds of your turban a few days ago,' she answered, playing with his finger; 'the little stone with all those funny marks upon it.

Who acts: course, bright stone, wedding · What happens: be, fall, answer, play · To what, where: bright stone, folds

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, bright stone, wedding), 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	_	6 stone	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stone	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stone	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 stone	mark
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stone	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 folds	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 folds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 folds	det
12	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 turban	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 turban	nmod:poss
15	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 folds	nmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 days	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 days	amod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ago	obl:unmarked
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 fell	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 answered	nsubj
23	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 playing	punct
25	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 answered	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 finger	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 finger	nmod:poss
28	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 playing	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stone	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 stone	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stone	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stone	amod
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stone	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	38 marks	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 marks	det:predet
36	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 marks	det
37	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 marks	amod
38	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stone	nmod
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 marks	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	course	bright stone and the little stone with all funny marks upon finger			tree rules
2	fall	past	bright stone and the little stone with all funny marks upon finger		the folds of your turban	ago property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out fold=Location
3	answer speech: assert	past	wedding				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	gerund	wedding not said here			with stone's finger	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with finger=Theme

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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