The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 75
And, as he watched, Patto's youngest daughter ran gaily down the path, till her foot caught in the strings that were stretched across the steepest place.
Who acts: boy, youngest daughter · What happens: watch, run, catch, stretch · To what, where: path, foot, strings, steepest place
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 (boy, youngest daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 watched | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
| 7 | Patto | Patto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Patto | case |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 foot | punct |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 foot | nmod:poss |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 foot | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 strings | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 strings | det |
| 23 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 caught | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stretched | aux:pass |
| 26 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 strings | acl:relcl |
| 27 | across | across | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 29 | steepest | steep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 place | amod |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stretched | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | boy | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | past | Patto's youngest daughter | the path | till daughter's foot | gaily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | catch | participle | daughter's foot not said here | the strings | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stretch | past · passive | the strings | the steepest place | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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