The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 52

She finished, and giving herself a twist, passed her woolly tail across her eyes; while the greyhound watched her, but held his peace.

Who acts: way, greyhound · What happens: finish, give, pass, watch, hold, pacify · To what, where: twist, way, woolly tail, eyes, peace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, greyhound), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 finished	nsubj
2	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passed	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passed	cc
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 passed	advcl
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 giving	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 twist	det
8	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giving	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
12	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tail	amod
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obj
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 passed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 watched	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 watched	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 greyhound	det
20	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watched	nsubj
21	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 watched	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 held	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 held	cc
25	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 watched	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 peace	nmod:poss
27	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 held	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	finish	past	way				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	give	gerund		a twist	way		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient twist=Theme
3	pass	past	way not said here	way's woolly tail		way's eyes	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tail=Trajectory
4	watch	past	the greyhound	way			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	hold	past	the greyhound not said here	greyhound's peace			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
6	pacify		greyhound				nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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