The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 20

She looked round till she saw a small stone above her which seemed rather stronger than the rest, and by only poising her foot lightly on those that lay between, she managed by a great effort to reach it.

Who acts: princess, small stone · What happens: look round, see, seem, poise, lie, manage · To what, where: small stone, foot, those, stone

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, small stone), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 saw	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
10	above	above	ADP	_	13 seemed	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nmod:poss
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stone	acl:relcl
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 stronger	advmod
15	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 seemed	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 rest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stronger	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 managed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 managed	cc
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 poising	mark
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 poising	advmod
23	poising	poise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 managed	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foot	nmod:poss
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 poising	obj
26	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	23 poising	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 those	case
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 poising	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lay	nsubj
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 those	acl:relcl
31	between	between	ADP	_	30 lay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 poising	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 managed	nsubj
34	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 effort	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 effort	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 effort	amod
38	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 managed	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 reach	mark
40	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 managed	advcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 reach	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look round	past	princess			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	princess	a small stone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus
3	seem	past	a small stone			strong property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	poise	gerund	princess not said here	princess's foot	those	lightly property	tree rules
5	lie	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	manage	past	princess			by a great effort	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	reach	to-infinitive	princess not said here	stone			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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