The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 79

Here she paused to consider what had best be done next, and looking about her she saw that one of the walls had a tall tree growing by it, and in the corner was a window very nearly on a level with the highest branches of the tree.

Who acts: shape, one, tall tree · What happens: pause, consider, do, look, see, have · To what, where: tall tree, level · 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 (shape, one, tall tree), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 paused	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paused	nsubj
3	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 consider	mark
5	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 paused	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 done	obj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 done	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 consider	ccomp
11	next	next	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 saw	advcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looking	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 had	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 walls	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 walls	det
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
26	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
28	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 tree	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 growing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 level	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 level	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 corner	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 corner	det
35	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 level	obl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 level	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 window	det
38	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 was	nsubj
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 nearly	advmod
40	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	43 level	advmod
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 level	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 level	det
43	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paused	obl
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 branches	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 branches	det
46	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 branches	amod
47	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 level	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 tree	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 tree	det
50	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 branches	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	shape		here		tree rules
2	consider	to-infinitive	shape not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	past · passive	shape not said here			next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
4	look	gerund	shape not said here			about shape	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme
5	see	past	shape				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	one of the walls	a tall tree			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
7	grow	gerund	a tall tree not said here			by tree	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location
8	is	past			a level	in the corner; with the highest branches of the tree; nearly property	tree rules

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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