The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 1
In an instant she had reached the bottom of the well, and found that the water was not deep enough to cover her legs.
Who acts: she, water · What happens: reach, find, not be, cover · To what, where: bottom, instant, legs
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, water), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | aux |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 deep | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deep | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 deep | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 deep | advmod |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | xcomp |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 deep | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cover | mark |
| 23 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 found | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 legs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cover | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | she | the bottom of the well | a instant | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is | past | the water | deep, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover | to-infinitive | her legs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Destination |
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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