The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 26

But, quickly as she ran, she soon felt her strength failing her, for fifteen years of life in a tower had not taught her how to exercise her limbs.

Who acts: fancy, strength · What happens: run, feel, fail, not teach, exercise · To what, where: strength, fancy, tower, limbs

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fancy, strength), 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	_	10 felt	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 ran	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ran	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 felt	advmod
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 strength	nmod:poss
12	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obj
13	failing	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 strength	acl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 failing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 years	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 years	case
17	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taught	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 life	case
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 years	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 tower	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tower	det
23	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taught	obl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taught	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 taught	advmod
26	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 felt	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taught	obj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 exercise	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 exercise	mark
30	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 taught	xcomp
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 limbs	nmod:poss
32	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 exercise	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	fancy					quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	fancy	fancy's strength				soon property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
3	fail	gerund	fancy's strength not said here	fancy					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
4	not teach speech: other	past · perfect	fancy not said here		fancy	a tower	year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	exercise	to-infinitive	fancy not said here	fancy's limbs					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=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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