The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 127

He found her where she was seated sewing, her very thimble wet from the tears which she had shed.

Who acts: man, door · What happens: find, seat, sew, thimble, shed · To what, where: door, tears

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, door), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 seated	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seated	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seated	aux:pass
7	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	advcl
8	sewing	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 seated	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thimble	punct
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thimble	nsubj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 thimble	advmod
12	thimble	thimble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
13	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thimble	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 tears	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tears	det
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thimble	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 shed	nsubj:pass
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shed	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shed	aux
20	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tears	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	man	door			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	seat	past · passive		door			tree rules
3	sew	gerund					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	thimble	present	door		the tears	wet property	tree rules
5	shed	past · perfect · passive		the tears			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source

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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