The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 93

The princess carelessly touched the wall of her room, which was wont to reflect the warm red light of the fire on the hearth, and found her hand quite wet.

Who acts: princess, room · What happens: touch, be, reflect, find, light · To what, where: wall, warm red light, fire

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 (princess, room), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	nsubj
3	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	4 touched	advmod
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 room	nmod:poss
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wont	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wont	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wont	cop
13	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 reflect	mark
15	reflect	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wont	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 light	det
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 light	amod
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 light	amod
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reflect	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fire	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 light	nmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 hearth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hearth	det
25	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fire	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wet	nsubj
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 wet	advmod
32	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 found	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past	the princess	the wall of princess's room	carelessly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme
2	is	past	princess's room		wont property	tree rules
3	reflect	to-infinitive	princess's room not said here	the warm red light of the fire on the hearth		tree rules
4	find	past	the princess not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	light			the fire on the hearth		nom light «phenomenon 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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