The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 36

“Oh! what a lovely ball!” cried she, and tried to catch it in her pail; but the ball always kept bobbing just out of her reach.

Who acts: lovely ball, ball · What happens: cry, try, catch, keep, bob · To what, where: river, ball, pail, reach

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 (lovely ball, ball), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ball	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ball	amod
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 ball	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 ball	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 catch	mark
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 catch	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 pail	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pail	nmod:poss
20	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 catch	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 kept	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ball	det
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	nsubj
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 kept	advmod
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
27	bobbing	bob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 kept	xcomp
28	just	just	ADV	_	32 reach	advmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 reach	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 reach	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 reach	nmod:poss
32	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bobbing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a lovely ball	river			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	try	past	a lovely ball not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	a lovely ball not said here	ball	river's pail		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	keep	past	the ball			always property	tree rules
5	bob	gerund	the ball not said here		river's reach		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out reach=Location

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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