The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 38

The girl listened carefully to all he told her, and walked with him back to the hut; but close to the door she stopped, and said:

Who acts: girl, husband · What happens: listen, tell, walk back, stop, say · To what, where: girl, hut, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, husband), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 listened	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 told	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walked	cc
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walked	obl
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 walked	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 hut	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hut	det
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walked	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 close	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 close	cc
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 listened	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stopped	nsubj
26	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 door	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the girl				carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	husband		girl		to all	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to all=Recipient
3	walk back	past	husband not said here			the hut	with husband	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination
4	stop	past	girl	the door not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector door=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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