The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

You won't need any teaching when you are once in the water,' she told him, with a glance of surprise at the dull brown which covered his back, and at his long naked neck.

Who acts: You, duck, glance, surprise · What happens: not need, be, tell, cover, glance · To what, where: teaching, husband, water, back · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, duck, glance, surprise), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 teaching	det
6	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 once	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 once	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 once	cop
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 need	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 water	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 once	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 glance	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 glance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 glance	det
22	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 surprise	case
24	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glance	nmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 brown	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brown	det
27	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 brown	amod
28	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 glance	nmod
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 covered	nsubj
30	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 glance	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 covered	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 neck	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 neck	cc
35	at	at	ADP	_	39 neck	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 neck	nmod:poss
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 neck	amod
38	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 neck	amod
39	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not need	future	You	any teaching				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot teaching=Theme
2	is	present	you				once property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	duck		husband	the water	at husband's long naked neck	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	cover	past	a glance of surprise at the dull brown	husband's back				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Destination
5	glance		surprise					nom glance «act intransitive»: of=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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