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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 34

Suddenly she heard a rustling movement in the pool below the waterfall, and, on glancing up, she saw a large crab climbing on to a stone beside her.

Who acts: queen, large crab · What happens: hear, glance up, see, climb on · To what, where: rustling movement, pool, large crab, stone

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 (queen, large crab), 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

advmodnsubjdetcompoundobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccpunctmarkadvclcompound:prtpunctnsubjconjdetamodobjaclcompound:prtcasedetoblcaseoblpunctrootSuddenlyADVshePRONheardVERBaDETrustlingNOUNmovementNOUNinADPtheDETpoolNOUNbelowADPtheDETwaterfallNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTonSCONJglancingVERBupADP,PUNCTshePRONsawVERBaDETlargeADJcrabNOUNclimbingVERBonADPtoADPaDETstoneNOUNbesideADPherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SuddenlysuddenlyADV_3 heardadvmod
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 heardnsubj
3heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 movementdet
5rustlingrustlingNOUNNumber=Sing6 movementcompound
6movementmovementNOUNNumber=Sing3 heardobj
7ininADP_9 poolcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 pooldet
9poolpoolNOUNNumber=Sing3 heardobl
10belowbelowADP_12 waterfallcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 waterfalldet
12waterfallwaterfallNOUNNumber=Sing9 poolnmod
13,,PUNCT_21 sawpunct
14andandCCONJ_21 sawcc
15,,PUNCT_14 andpunct
16ononSCONJ_17 glancingmark
17glancingglanceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 sawadvcl
18upupADP_17 glancingcompound:prt
19,,PUNCT_17 glancingpunct
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 sawnsubj
21sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 heardconj
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 crabdet
23largelargeADJDegree=Pos24 crabamod
24crabcrabNOUNNumber=Sing21 sawobj
25climbingclimbVERBVerbForm=Ger24 crabacl
26ononADP_25 climbingcompound:prt
27totoADP_29 stonecase
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 stonedet
29stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing25 climbingobl
30besidebesideADP_31 hercase
31hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 climbingobl
32..PUNCT_3 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastqueena rustling movementthe pool below the waterfallsuddenly propertyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus
2glance upgerundqueen not said herevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3seepastqueena large crabvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crab=Stimulus
4climb ongerunda large crab not said herea stonebeside queenvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stone=Destination

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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