The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 35

But, quick as she was, Eglantine, her maid of honour, had time to see where she went, and jumped from the carriage in pursuit of her, followed at a distance by the guards.

Who acts: doe, Eglantine · What happens: be, have, see, go, jump, follow · To what, where: carriage, doe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doe, Eglantine), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 quick	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Eglantine	punct
8	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 maid	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 maid	nmod:poss
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Eglantine	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 honour	case
13	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maid	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Eglantine	punct
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	parataxis
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 time	acl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 went	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 jumped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 jumped	cc
24	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 carriage	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 carriage	det
27	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jumped	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 pursuit	case
29	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jumped	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pursuit	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 followed	punct
33	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 jumped	parataxis
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 distance	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 distance	det
36	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 followed	obl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 guards	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 guards	det
39	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 followed	obl:agent
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	doe					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Eglantine			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	see	to-infinitive	Eglantine not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past	doe					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	jump	past			the carriage		in pursuit of doe	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from carriage=Trajectory
6	follow	participle					at a distance	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at distance=Location
7	pursue			doe				nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

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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