The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 91

The maid of honour was surprised; but she was fond of animals, and stroked the white doe tenderly, speaking gently to her all the while.

Who acts: maid · What happens: be, stroke, speak · To what, where: white doe, 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 (maid), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 honour	case
4	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 maid	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fond	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fond	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fond	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fond	cop
11	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprised	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 animals	case
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fond	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stroked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stroked	cc
16	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 doe	det
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 doe	amod
19	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stroked	obj
20	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stroked	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 speaking	punct
22	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 stroked	advcl
23	gently	gently	ADV	_	22 speaking	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 speaking	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 while	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 while	det
28	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 speaking	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the maid of honour				surprised property	tree rules
2	is	past	maid				of animals; fond property	tree rules
3	stroke	past	the maid of honour not said here	the white doe			tenderly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doe=Experiencer
4	speak speech: other	gerund	the maid of honour not said here		doe	while	gently property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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