The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 6

Seizing the net with both hands, she flung it into the water where the circles were spreading one behind the other, and, more by luck than skill, drew out the fish.

Who acts: girl, circles · What happens: seize, fling, spread, draw out · To what, where: net, water, one, other, fish

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 (girl, circles), 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	Seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 flung	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 net	det
3	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seizing	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hands	det
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Seizing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seizing	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flung	nsubj
9	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flung	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flung	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 spreading	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 circles	det
16	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spreading	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spreading	aux
18	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 water	acl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 spreading	obj
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 drew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drew	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 more	punct
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 drew	advmod
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 luck	case
28	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 more	obl
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 skill	case
30	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 more	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 drew	punct
32	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flung	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 drew	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fish	det
35	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drew	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	gerund	girl not said here	the net		with both hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
2	fling	past	girl	net	the water		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into water=Destination
3	spread	past · progressive	the circles	one	the other		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme behind other=Destination
4	draw out	past	girl not said here	the fish			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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