The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 30

They were now passing through a forest, and the princess took out her handkerchief and threw it upwards, so that it stuck in one of the topmost branches of a tree.

Who acts: others, princess, handkerchief · What happens: pass, take out, throw, stick · To what, where: forest, handkerchief

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 (others, princess, handkerchief), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 passing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passing	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 passing	advmod
4	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passing	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 handkerchief	nmod:poss
15	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obj
19	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	17 threw	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stuck	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 stuck	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stuck	nsubj
24	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 threw	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 stuck	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 branches	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 branches	det
29	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 branches	amod
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branches	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	others = other		a forest	now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location
2	take out	past	the princess	princess's handkerchief				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme
3	throw	past	the princess not said here	handkerchief			upwards property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	stick	past	handkerchief				in one of the topmost branches of a tree	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in one=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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