The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 54

She sat silent for a moment, and then went on:

Who acts: queen · What happens: sit, go on

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 (queen), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 went	advmod
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	queen				moment	silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go on	past	queen not said here				then		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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