The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 111

But it was not till the moon had risen that the sister came, and as she let down her bucket into the well, the leaves seemed to whisper 'Lyma!

Who acts: sister, leaves · What happens: not rise, come, let down, seem, whisper · To what, where: water, bucket, well, Lyma

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 (sister, leaves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 risen	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 risen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 risen	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 risen	advmod
5	till	till	ADP	_	7 moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 risen	obl
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 risen	aux
9	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sister	det
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 risen	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 let	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 let	compound:prt
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bucket	nmod:poss
21	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 well	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 well	det
24	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seemed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 well	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaves	det
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 let	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 whisper	mark
30	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 seemed	xcomp
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 Lyma	punct
32	Lyma	Lyma	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 whisper	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 risen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not rise	past · perfect · passive		water		till the moon	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	the sister				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let down	past	sister	sister's bucket			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme
4	seem	past	the leaves		the well		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	the leaves not said here	Lyma			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lyma=Topic

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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