The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 22

No sooner had she arrived there than the sight of her sad face attracted the notice of some of the other fishes, and they pressed round her, begging her to tell them her story.

Who acts: power, legs · What happens: arrive, attract, press, beg, tell, sight · To what, where: notice, power, story, legs, sad face · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (power, legs), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 arrived	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 arrived	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sight	det
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attracted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 face	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 face	amod
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sight	nmod
14	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 notice	det
16	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attracted	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 some	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 notice	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 fishes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fishes	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fishes	amod
22	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 some	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pressed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pressed	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pressed	nsubj
26	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	conj
27	round	round	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pressed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 begging	punct
30	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 pressed	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 begging	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 begging	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 story	nmod:poss
36	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	power			there	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attract	past	power not said here	the notice of some			than the sight of power's sad face	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient
3	press	past	legs = leg				round power	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round she=Trajectory
4	beg speech: request	gerund	legs = leg not said here		power			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	legs = leg not said here	power's story	legs = leg			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
6	sight			power's sad face				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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