The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 100

'You must swim across the lake,' she said, stooping to put him in, 'and we will walk across on the line behind you.'

Who acts: You, wife, we · What happens: swim, say, stoop, put, walk · To what, where: lake, frog, line · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wife, we), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 swim	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 swim	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stooping	punct
13	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 put	mark
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stooping	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	in	in	ADV	_	15 put	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stooping	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 stooping	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 walk	cc
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 walk	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 walk	aux
23	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swim	conj
24	across	across	ADV	_	23 walk	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 line	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 line	det
27	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walk	obl
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 walk	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swim	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 swim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	must	You		the lake		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across lake=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stoop	gerund	wife not said here				tree rules
4	put	to-infinitive	wife not said here	frog			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
5	walk	future	we		the line	behind you; across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Trajectory

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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