The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 76
She slipped and fell, and in another instant had rolled into the water within reach of the Stalo.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: slip, fall, roll · To what, where: instant
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 (daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:2269): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rolled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rolled | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 instant | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 instant | det |
| 9 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rolled | aux |
| 11 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 slipped | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 reach | case |
| 16 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Stalo | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Stalo | det |
| 19 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 reach | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | daughter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | daughter not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roll | past · perfect | daughter not said here | another instant | into the water; within reach of the Stalo | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in instant=Source into water=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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