The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 60

And as she spoke she reached a little plot of grass, where the two roads joined, and flung herself under a tree to take a little rest, and to settle her plans.

Who acts: village, two roads · What happens: speak, reach, join, fling, take, settle · To what, where: little plot, village, tree, little rest, plans, grass · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (village, two roads), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 reached	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plot	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plot	amod
9	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plot	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 joined	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 joined	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roads	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 roads	nummod
16	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 joined	nsubj
17	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plot	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flung	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flung	cc
20	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 flung	obj
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 flung	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rest	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rest	amod
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 settle	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 settle	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 settle	mark
33	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 plans	nmod:poss
35	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 settle	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	village			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	village	a little plot of grass		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plot=Theme
3	join	past	the two roads			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	fling	past	village not said here	village	a tree	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme under tree=Destination
5	take	to-infinitive	village not said here	a little rest		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
6	settle	to-infinitive	village not said here	village's plans		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme plan=Location
7	plot			grass		nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	plan		village			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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