The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 42

Instead of having to push her way through nettles and brambles, roses and jasmine hung about her head, while under her feet the ground was sweet with violets.

Who acts: ground · What happens: have, push, hang, be · To what, where: way, nettles, feet

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 (ground), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 having	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 hung	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 push	mark
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 having	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 nettles	case
9	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 push	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brambles	cc
11	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nettles	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 roses	punct
13	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nettles	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 jasmine	cc
15	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nettles	conj
16	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sweet	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 sweet	mark
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 feet	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sweet	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sweet	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sweet	cop
28	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hung	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 violets	case
30	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sweet	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund					tree rules
2	push	to-infinitive		queen's way	nettles and brambles and roses and jasmine		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme through nettle=Trajectory
3	hang	past				about queen's head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about head=Location
4	is	past	the ground		queen's feet	with violets; sweet property	tree rules

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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