The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 7
Stooping down she filled a bag she was carrying with the shining water and, returning to the castle, wove a crown out of the reflected stars.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: stoop down, fill, carry, shine, return, weave · To what, where: bag, crown, reflected 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), 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 | Stooping | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 filled | csubj |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Stooping | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carrying | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carrying | aux |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 filled | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returning | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 carrying | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returning | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wove | punct |
| 21 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 crown | det |
| 23 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wove | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 stars | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 stars | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stars | det |
| 27 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 stars | amod |
| 28 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wove | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | gerund | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fill | past | Toad | a bag | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · progressive | Toad | with the shining water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | return | gerund | Toad not said here | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 6 | weave | past | Toad not said here | a crown | the reflected stars | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Product | |||
| 7 | reflect | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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