The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 16

At this the girl took a cup in which some poisonous herbs had been crushed, and holding it in her hands, she wailed: 'O my father, Rover of the Plain!'

Who acts: girl, wife · What happens: take, crush, hold, wail · To what, where: cup, poisonous herbs, hands

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 girl	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 girl	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cup	det
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 crushed	obl
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 herbs	det
11	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 herbs	amod
12	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crushed	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 crushed	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 crushed	aux:pass
15	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cup	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wailed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wailed	cc
18	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 wailed	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 holding	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hands	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 holding	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 holding	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wailed	nsubj
25	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 father	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 father	punct
28	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	30 father	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 father	nmod:poss
30	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wailed	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Rover	punct
32	Rover	Rover	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 father	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Plain	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Plain	det
35	Plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Rover	nmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 father	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	this girl	a cup		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
2	crush	past · perfect · passive		some poisonous herbs	a cup	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	hold	gerund	wife not said here	cup	wife's hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location
4	wail	past	wife			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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