The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 54

All the people loved them, and loud was the weeping when one day, as the three maidens sat on the rocks on the edge of the sea, dipping their feet in the water, there arose a great beast from under the waves and swept them away beneath the ocean.

Who acts: people, three maidens · What happens: love, be, sit, dip, arise, sweep away · To what, where: isles, loud weeping, rocks, feet, water, great beast

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 (people, three maidens), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weeping	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weeping	cc
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weeping	amod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 weeping	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 weeping	det
11	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 day	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weeping	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 sat	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maidens	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 maidens	nummod
19	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 rocks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rocks	det
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sat	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 edge	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 edge	det
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edge	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dipping	punct
31	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sat	advcl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feet	nmod:poss
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dipping	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dipping	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 arose	punct
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 arose	expl
39	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 beast	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 beast	amod
42	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 arose	obj
43	from	from	ADP	_	46 waves	case
44	under	under	ADP	_	46 waves	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 waves	det
46	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 arose	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 swept	cc
48	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 swept	obj
50	away	away	ADV	_	48 swept	advmod
51	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	53 ocean	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 ocean	det
53	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 swept	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	all people	isles = isle				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is a	past	all people not said here	the loud weeping		day		tree rules
3	sit	past	the three maidens		the rocks		on the edge of the sea	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
4	dip	gerund	the three maidens not said here	isles's feet	the water			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in water=Trajectory
5	arise	past	the three maidens not said here	a great beast	the waves; there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme
6	sweep away	past	the three maidens not said here	isles = isle	the ocean		away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme beneath ocean=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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