The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 38

And she rested her fore feet on the crag, and threw up her hind legs, and the Seven Big Women fell over the crag, and were dead when they reached the bottom.

Who acts: eldest, Big Women, legs · What happens: rest, throw up, fall, be, reach · To what, where: fore feet, crag, hind legs, bottom

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, Big Women, legs), 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	_	3 rested	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rested	nsubj
3	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
5	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feet	amod
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rested	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 crag	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crag	det
9	crag	crag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rested	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 threw	compound:prt
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 legs	nmod:poss
15	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 legs	amod
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 threw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Women	det
20	Seven	Seven	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Big	compound
21	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Women	compound
22	Women	Women	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rested	conj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 crag	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crag	det
26	crag	crag	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dead	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dead	cc
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rested	parataxis
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 reached	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reached	nsubj
33	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bottom	det
35	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reached	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past	eldest = eld	eldest's fore feet	the crag		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on crag=Location
2	throw up	past	eldest = eld not said here	eldest's hind legs			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
3	fall	past	the Big Women		the crag		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over crag=Location
4	is	past				dead property	tree rules
5	reach	past	legs = leg	the bottom			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme

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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