The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 96

She did not walk to the village with the others, but lingered behind, and, instead of entering her hut, she slipped into the little shed where the pots for cooking and storing maize were kept.

Who acts: wife · What happens: not walk, linger, enter, slip, store, keep · To what, where: hut, little shed, maize, pots

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 (wife), 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	4 walk	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 others	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 village	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lingered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lingered	cc
13	lingered	linger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 walk	conj
14	behind	behind	ADV	_	13 lingered	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 entering	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 entering	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 entering	punct
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 entering	mark
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lingered	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hut	nmod:poss
22	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 entering	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	parataxis
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 shed	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shed	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shed	amod
29	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	obl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 kept	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pots	det
32	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 kept	nsubj:pass
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 cooking	case
34	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pots	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 storing	cc
36	storing	store	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 cooking	conj
37	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 storing	obj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 kept	aux:pass
39	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 shed	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not walk	past · do-support	wife			to the village with the others result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result
2	linger	participle	wife not said here			behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enter	gerund	wife not said here	wife's hut			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
4	slip	past	wife		the little shed		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	store	gerund		maize			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maize=Theme
6	keep	past · passive		the pots for cooking			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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