The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 68

But, small as she was, she made herself so heavy that, after staggering a few steps under her weight, he laid her down, and tied her fast to a tree with some of the ribbons of his hat.

Who acts: Eglantine, doe · What happens: be, make, stagger, lay down, tie · To what, where: Eglantine, few steps, weight

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 (Eglantine, doe), 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 small	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 small	punct
3	small	small	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 small	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 small	parataxis
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 made	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 heavy	advmod
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 heavy	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 staggering	punct
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 staggering	mark
16	staggering	stagger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 made	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 steps	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 steps	amod
19	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 staggering	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 weight	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 weight	nmod:poss
22	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 staggering	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 laid	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 laid	nsubj
25	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 small	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 laid	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 laid	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tied	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tied	cc
30	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 small	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tied	obj
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 tied	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 tree	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tree	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tied	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 some	case
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 tree	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 ribbons	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ribbons	det
40	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 some	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 hat	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hat	nmod:poss
43	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ribbons	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	Eglantine				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	Eglantine	Eglantine		heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product
3	stagger	gerund	Eglantine not said here	a few steps	Eglantine's weight		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus step=Experiencer
4	lay down	past	doe	Eglantine			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Result
5	tie	past		Eglantine		to a tree with some; fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to tree=Co-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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