The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 123

On, on, she went, down to such a depth that even the witch's eyes could not follow her; but she took for granted that the woman was dead, and told the sister to take her place.

Who acts: girl, eyes, woman · What happens: go, not follow, take, grant, be, tell · To what, where: depth, sister, place · 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 (girl, eyes, woman), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 on	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 on	punct
3	on	on	ADV	_	6 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 depth	punct
8	down	down	ADV	_	12 depth	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 depth	case
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 depth	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 depth	det
12	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 follow	obj
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 witch	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witch	det
16	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eyes	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 witch	case
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 follow	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 follow	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 follow	advmod
21	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 depth	acl:relcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 follow	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 granted	mark
28	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 took	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 dead	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woman	det
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dead	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dead	cop
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 granted	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 told	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 told	cc
36	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sister	det
38	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	iobj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 take	mark
40	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 told	xcomp
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 place	nmod:poss
42	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 take	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	girl			such depth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to depth=Initial_Location
2	not follow	could	the witch's eyes	such depth				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent that=Theme she=Attribute
3	take	past	girl					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	grant	participle	girl not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the woman				dead property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	girl not said here		the sister			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl's place				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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