The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 1

And so they did; and the elder sister let down her hair till it hung over the witch's eyes, so that she might believe it was her own hair growing.

Who acts: they, elder sister, hair, sister, own hair · What happens: do, let down, hang, believe, be, grow · To what, where: hair, eyes, own hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, elder sister, hair, sister), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sister	det
8	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sister	amod
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 let	compound:prt
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 hung	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hung	nsubj
16	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 let	advcl
17	over	over	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 witch	det
19	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eyes	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 witch	case
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hung	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 believe	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 believe	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 believe	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 believe	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 believe	aux
27	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hair	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hair	cop
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hair	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hair	amod
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 believe	ccomp
33	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 hair	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	they			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let down	past	the elder sister	sister's hair		tree rules
3	hang	past	hair		the witch's eyes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location
4	believe	might	sister			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	hair	sister's own hair		tree rules
6	grow	gerund	sister's own hair not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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