The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 101

The country was very lonely, and perhaps no one would have known in which direction she had gone had not the girl managed to tie a ball of thread to the handle of a door at the back of the cottage and let it trail behind her.

Who acts: country, Lyma, girl, ball · What happens: be, know, go, have, not manage, not tie · To what, where: one, direction, ball, back

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, Lyma, girl, ball), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lonely	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 lonely	advmod
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 known	cc
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 known	advmod
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 known	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 known	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 known	aux
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lonely	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 direction	case
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 direction	det
16	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 known	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gone	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 direction	acl:relcl
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lonely	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 managed	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 managed	nsubj
24	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tie	mark
26	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 managed	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ball	det
28	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tie	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 thread	case
30	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ball	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 handle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 handle	det
33	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tie	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 door	det
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 handle	nmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 back	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 back	det
39	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tie	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 cottage	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cottage	det
42	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 back	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 let	cc
44	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tie	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 let	obj
46	trail	trail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 let	xcomp
47	behind	behind	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 trail	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the country			lonely property	tree rules
2	know	would · perfect · passive		no one	which direction	perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	go	past · perfect	Lyma	which direction not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme
4	have	past	the country not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not manage	past	the girl				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not tie	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	a ball of thread	the back of the cottage	to the handle of a door	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ball=Patient to handle=Co-Patient
7	let	infinitive	the girl not said here	ball			tree rules
8	trail	infinitive	ball not said here			behind Lyma	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind she=Trajectory

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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