The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 81

When at last she stooped to fill her pail at the well Pinkel pushed her into it, and snatching up the lantern hurried back to his boat and rowed off from the shore.

Who acts: girl, Pinkel, snatching · What happens: stoop, fill, push, snatch up, hurry back, row off · To what, where: last, pail, girl, lantern, boat, shore

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Pinkel, snatching), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stooped	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stooped	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stooped	nsubj
5	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hurried	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fill	mark
7	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stooped	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pail	nmod:poss
9	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fill	obj
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 pushed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pushed	det
12	well	well	PUNCT	_	14 pushed	punct
13	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 pushed	nsubj
14	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fill	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pushed	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pushed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hurried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hurried	cc
20	snatching	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 hurried	csubj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 snatching	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lantern	det
23	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snatching	obj
24	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 hurried	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 boat	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 boat	nmod:poss
28	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hurried	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rowed	cc
30	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hurried	conj
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 rowed	compound:prt
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 shore	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shore	det
34	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rowed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stoop	past	girl		last	tree rules
2	fill	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl's pail		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pail=Patient
3	push	past	Pinkel	girl	pail	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into it=Destination
4	snatch up	gerund		the lantern		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme
5	hurry back	past	snatching		Pinkel's boat	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to boat=Destination
6	row off	past	snatching not said here		the shore	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from shore=Trajectory

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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