The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 6

She had not gone far before she came to a clear pool, in which the stars were reflected so brightly that they looked quite real to touch and handle.

Who acts: Toad, stars · What happens: not go, come, reflect, look, touch, handle · To what, where: clear pool, stars

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 (Toad, stars), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 pool	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pool	det
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pool	amod
12	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reflected	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 reflected	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stars	det
17	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 reflected	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reflected	aux:pass
19	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 brightly	advmod
21	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	19 reflected	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 looked	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reflected	advcl
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 real	advmod
26	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looked	xcomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 touch	mark
28	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 real	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 handle	cc
30	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 touch	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Toad			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Toad		a clear pool		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial_Location
3	reflect	past · passive		the stars		brightly property	tree rules
4	look	past	stars = star			real property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	touch	to-infinitive	stars = star not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	handle	infinitive	stars = star not said here				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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