The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 18

A little while after they reached a castle, which was built in the middle of a very thick wood, and right in front was the Princess Bella-Flor feeding her hens.

Who acts: little while, Bella Flor · What happens: reach, build, feed · To what, where: castle, middle, hens

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little while, Bella Flor), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 while	amod
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 built	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 built	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 built	aux:pass
12	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 castle	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wood	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 thick	advmod
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wood	amod
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 right	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 right	cc
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feeding	mark
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 right	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 feeding	aux
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Flor	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Flor	nsubj
29	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Flor	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Flor	punct
31	Flor	Flor	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 feeding	nsubj
32	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reached	advcl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hens	nmod:poss
34	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 feeding	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	a little while	a castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
2	build	past · passive		a castle		the middle of a thick wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	feed	past · progressive	the Bella Flor		Flor's hens		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient

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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