The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 45

'So she had come!' cried he, throwing down the bow he had been pretending to mend. '

Who acts: etiquette, prince · What happens: come, cry, throw down, pretend, mend · To what, where: prince, bow

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 (etiquette, prince), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	parataxis
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 throwing	punct
11	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 pretending	csubj
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 bow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bow	det
14	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throwing	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pretending	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pretending	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 pretending	aux
18	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 mend	mark
20	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pretending	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	etiquette		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		prince	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	throw down	gerund		the bow	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
4	pretend	past · perfect · progressive	prince		tree rules
5	mend	to-infinitive	prince not said here		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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