The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 110

It did not take him long to reach them, for they had stopped to rest in a green pool shaded by a tree whose branches swept the water.

Who acts: It, syringas, branches · What happens: not take, reach, stop, rest, shade, sweep · To what, where: bird, syringas, green pool, water

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, syringas, branches), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 reach	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reach	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 stopped	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stopped	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stopped	aux
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 reach	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rest	mark
16	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stopped	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 pool	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pool	det
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pool	amod
20	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rest	obl
21	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 pool	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shaded	obl
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 branches	nmod:poss
26	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 swept	nsubj
27	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tree	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swept	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	It		bird			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	reach	to-infinitive		syringas = syringa			long property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	stop	past · perfect	syringas = syringa					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	rest	to-infinitive	syringas = syringa not said here			a green pool		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location
5	shade	participle		a green pool not said here			by a tree	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	sweep	past	branches	the water				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory

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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