The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 37

After the wood they reached a river, and the princess slipped a ring off her finger and let it roll into the water.

Who acts: meshes, princess, ring · What happens: reach, slip, let, roll · To what, where: river, ring, water

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 (meshes, princess, ring), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 wood	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wood	det
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slipped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slipped	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	nsubj
12	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ring	det
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 finger	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 finger	nmod:poss
17	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 slipped	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roll	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	meshes = mesh	a river		after the wood		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme
2	slip	past	the princess	a ring			off princess's finger	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ring=Patient off finger=Co-Patient
3	let	infinitive	the princess not said here	ring				tree rules
4	roll	infinitive	ring not said here		the water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/37/