The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 93

Desiree, in a flowing dress of green silk, was lying stretched out upon cushions, and as Eglantine bent over her to bathe the wounded leg, she began to talk:

Who acts: Eglantine · What happens: flow, stretch out, bend, bathe, begin, talk · To what, where: Desiree, wounded leg

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), 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	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stretched	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dress	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 dress	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dress	det
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dress	amod
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Desiree	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 silk	case
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 silk	amod
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dress	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Desiree	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stretched	aux:pass
12	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 stretched	aux:pass
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 stretched	compound:prt
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 cushions	case
16	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stretched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bent	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bent	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 bent	mark
20	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bent	nsubj
21	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stretched	conj
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bent	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bathe	mark
25	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bent	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 leg	det
27	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 leg	amod
28	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bathe	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stretched	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 talk	mark
33	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch out	past · passive		Desiree	upon cushions	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	bend	past	Eglantine		over Desiree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location
4	bathe	to-infinitive	Eglantine not said here	the wounded leg		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Destination
5	begin	past	Eglantine			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk	to-infinitive	Eglantine not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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