The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 45

At length the doe could run no more, and when the prince reached her, she was lying stretched out on the grass, waiting for her death blow.

Who acts: doe, prince, creature · What happens: run, reach, stretch out, wait, blow · To what, where: more, length, creature, grass

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 (doe, prince, creature), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doe	det
4	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 run	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stretched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stretched	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 reached	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	nsubj
14	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stretched	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reached	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reached	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stretched	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stretched	aux:pass
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stretched	aux:pass
20	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 run	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 stretched	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 grass	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grass	det
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stretched	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 waiting	punct
26	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stretched	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 blow	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 blow	nmod:poss
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blow	compound
30	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 waiting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	could	the doe	more	length		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent more=Theme at length=Trajectory
2	reach	past	the prince	creature			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	stretch out	past · passive		creature	the grass		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	wait	gerund				for creature's death blow	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	blow		creature				nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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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