The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 25

She said nothing, however, but quietly opened her apron which contained the bran for the chickens, and in a moment it lay scattered on the ground.

Who acts: princess, apron · What happens: say, open, contain, scatter · To what, where: nothing, apron, bran, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (princess, apron), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 opened	cc
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	9 opened	advmod
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 apron	nmod:poss
11	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 contained	nsubj
13	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 apron	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bran	det
15	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 contained	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 chickens	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chickens	det
18	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 contained	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 scattered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 scattered	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 moment	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scattered	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 scattered	nsubj:pass
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 scattered	aux:pass
26	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 opened	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scattered	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	princess	nothing			however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	open	past		princess's apron			quietly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apron=Theme
3	contain	past	princess's apron	the bran			for the chickens	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bran=Theme
4	scatter	past · passive		bran	the ground	moment		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination

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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