The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 23

But, unluckily, in the midst of it, the cat raised her voice, and the stone fell into the ear of a big fish which happened to be swimming by, and though both the cat and the falcon sprang into the water after it, they were too late.

Who acts: cat, stone, big fish, orders · What happens: raise, fall, happen, swim, spring, be · To what, where: voice, ear, water

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, stone, big fish, orders), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 raised	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 midst	punct
3	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	7 midst	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 midst	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 midst	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 midst	det
7	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raised	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 midst	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 midst	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raised	nsubj
13	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 voice	nmod:poss
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raised	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fell	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 raised	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 ear	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ear	det
23	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 fish	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fish	det
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fish	amod
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ear	nmod
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 happened	nsubj
29	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fish	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	32 swimming	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 swimming	aux
32	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 happened	advcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	32 swimming	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sprang	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sprang	cc
36	though	though	SCONJ	_	43 sprang	mark
37	both	both	CCONJ	_	39 cat	cc:preconj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cat	det
39	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sprang	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 falcon	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 falcon	det
42	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cat	conj
43	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 raised	conj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 water	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 water	det
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sprang	obl
47	after	after	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sprang	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 late	punct
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 late	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 late	cop
52	too	too	ADV	_	53 late	advmod
53	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 raised	parataxis
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	the cat	cat's voice				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
2	fall	past	the stone				into the ear of a big fish result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ear=Result
3	happen	past	a big fish					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	swim	to-infinitive · progressive	a big fish not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spring	past	the cat and the falcon		the water	after burden		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
6	is	past	orders = order				late property	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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