The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 35

But this ball, instead of doing either of these things, went straight across to the other side, and there one of the girls saw it when she stooped to dip some water into her pail.

Who acts: ball, girls, river · What happens: do, go, see, stoop, dip · To what, where: either, other side, one, water, pail

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, girls, river), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	7 doing	mark
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ball	acl:relcl
8	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	7 doing	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 things	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 things	det
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 either	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ball	punct
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 across	advmod
15	across	across	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 side	amod
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 one	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 one	expl
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 saw	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 girls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 girls	det
26	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	obj
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 stooped	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stooped	nsubj
31	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 dip	mark
33	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stooped	xcomp
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dip	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 pail	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 pail	nmod:poss
38	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dip	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	this ball not said here	either			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Eventuality
2	go	past	this ball		the other side	across property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location
3	see	past	the girls	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	stoop	past	river				tree rules
5	dip	to-infinitive	river not said here	some water	river's pail		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into pail=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 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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