The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 107

There it was borne by the current close to the shore, and a woman who was down there washing her clothes caught it as it passed, and drew it out, saying to herself: 'What a nice smooth plank!

Who acts: current, woman, wood · What happens: bear, be, wash, catch, pass, draw out · To what, where: wood, clothes, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (current, woman, wood), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 borne	expl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 borne	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 borne	aux:pass
4	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 current	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 current	det
7	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 borne	obl
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 current	amod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shore	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shore	det
11	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 caught	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 there	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 there	cop
18	down	down	ADV	_	19 there	advmod
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 woman	acl:relcl
20	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 woman	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 clothes	nmod:poss
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 washing	obj
23	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 borne	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caught	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 passed	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 passed	nsubj
27	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 caught	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drew	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drew	cc
30	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 caught	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 drew	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	30 drew	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saying	punct
34	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 drew	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 herself	case
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 saying	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 plank	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 plank	punct
39	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	43 plank	det
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 plank	det
41	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 plank	amod
42	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 plank	amod
43	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 borne	obl
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 borne	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive	the current	wood		there	what nice smooth plank obl	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is	past	a woman				down, there property	tree rules
3	wash	gerund	a woman not said here	woman's clothes				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
4	catch	past	a woman	wood				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	pass	past	wood					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	draw out	past	a woman not said here	wood				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	say speech: assert	gerund	a woman not said here		woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=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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