The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 120

The two thieves dragged themselves noiselessly along the wall till they were opposite the well, and by stretching out her neck as far as it would go the fox was able to make out that there was only very little water in the bottom, but just enough to reflect the moon, big, and round and yellow.

Who acts: two thieves, Fox, well · What happens: drag, be, stretch out, go, make out, reflect · To what, where: thieves, neck, fox, able little water, moon

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two thieves, Fox, well), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thieves	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thieves	nummod
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 dragged	obj
6	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	_	4 dragged	advmod
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 well	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 well	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 well	cop
13	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	15 well	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 well	det
15	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stretching	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stretching	cc
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 stretching	mark
19	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dragged	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 stretching	compound:prt
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 neck	nmod:poss
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretching	obj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 far	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 able	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 far	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fox	det
30	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 able	cop
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 water	amod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 make	mark
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	xcomp
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 make	compound:prt
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 was	mark
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 was	expl
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 water	cop
39	only	only	ADV	_	42 water	advmod
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 little	advmod
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 water	amod
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretching	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 bottom	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 bottom	det
45	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretching	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 reflect	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 reflect	cc
48	just	just	ADV	_	49 enough	advmod
49	enough	enough	ADV	_	51 reflect	advmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 reflect	mark
51	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 moon	det
53	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 reflect	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 big	punct
55	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 reflect	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 round	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 round	cc
58	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dragged	parataxis
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 yellow	cc
60	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 round	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drag	past	the two thieves	thieves = thief	along the wall; noiselessly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	is	past	Fox		opposite the well	tree rules
3	stretch out	gerund	the two thieves not said here	pole's neck	in the bottom	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in bottom=Topic
4	go	would	well	the fox		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fox=Theme
5	is	past			able, far property	tree rules
6	make out	to-infinitive				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past		able little water		tree rules
8	reflect	to-infinitive		the moon	enough property	tree rules

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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