The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 49

But at this question the old woman flew into a passion, and vowed that if she could find a rod she would bring his memory back to him.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: fly, vow, find, bring · To what, where: question, rod, memory

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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	_	8 flew	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 question	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 passion	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 passion	det
11	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vowed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 vowed	cc
14	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bring	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rod	det
21	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bring	aux
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 vowed	ccomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 memory	nmod:poss
26	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	24 bring	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 back	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the old woman		this question	into a passion	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at question=Location
2	vow	past	the old woman not said here				tree rules
3	find a condition, not said to happen	could	woman	a rod			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Topic
4	bring	would	woman	man's memory			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent memory=Theme

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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