The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 38

Her tail dropped away or, rather, it divided and grew into two legs and a pair of the prettiest feet in the world, while her maidens, who were grouped around her, shed their scales and became girls again.

Who acts: tail · What happens: drop away, divide, grow, group, shed, become · To what, where: maidens, two legs, scales, girls

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 (tail), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 dropped	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 divided	cc
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 divided	punct
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 divided	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 divided	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 divided	nsubj
10	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 legs	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 legs	nummod
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pair	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pair	det
18	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 legs	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 feet	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 feet	det
21	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 feet	amod
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pair	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 maidens	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 maidens	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 maidens	nmod:poss
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grouped	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 grouped	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 grouped	aux:pass
33	grouped	group	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 maidens	acl:relcl
34	around	around	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 grouped	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shed	punct
37	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 scales	nmod:poss
39	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shed	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 became	cc
41	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
42	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 became	xcomp
43	again	again	ADV	_	41 became	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop away	past	thing's tail				away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	divide	past	tail					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	thing's tail not said here	thing's maidens	two legs and a pair of the prettiest feet		in the world	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
4	group	past · passive		thing's maidens			around thing	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	shed	past	thing's tail not said here	maidens's scales				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scale=Source
6	become	past	thing's tail not said here	girls		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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