The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 101

She next drew out a piece of string that she had found hanging from a tree, and sitting down to rest strung the stones together.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: draw out, find, hang, sit down, rest, string · To what, where: piece, tree, strung stones

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
2	next	next	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 drew	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 string	case
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 found	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 drew	advcl
13	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 found	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hanging	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sitting	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sitting	cc
19	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hanging	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 sitting	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rest	mark
22	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sitting	advcl
23	strung	string	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 stones	amod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stones	det
25	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rest	obj
26	together	together	ADV	_	22 rest	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw out	past	Eagle	a piece of string		next property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	find	past · perfect	Eagle				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	hang	gerund	Eagle not said here		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	gerund	Eagle not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest	to-infinitive	Eagle not said here	the strung stones		together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme
6	string	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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