The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 96

Round the lake they ran, and never drew rein till they came to the well and windlass; and there was the silk rope rolled on the axle, and the nice white basket hanging to it.

Who acts: ladies, nice white basket · What happens: run, not draw, come, be, roll, hang · To what, where: nice white basket, lake, rein, well, silk rope, axle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, nice white basket), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 lake	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lake	det
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drew	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 drew	advmod
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
10	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drew	obj
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drew	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 well	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 well	det
16	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 windlass	cc
18	windlass	windlass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 well	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 rope	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rope	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rope	det
24	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rope	compound
25	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	parataxis
26	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 rope	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 axle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 axle	det
29	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rolled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 basket	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 basket	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 basket	det
33	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 basket	amod
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 basket	amod
35	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
36	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 basket	acl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hanging	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	run	past	ladies = lady	the nice white basket		the lake	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round lake=Trajectory
2	not draw	past	ladies = lady not said here	rein			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme
3	come	past	ladies = lady			the well and windlass	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location
4	is a	past		the silk rope			tree rules
5	roll	participle		the silk rope not said here		the axle	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on axle=Trajectory
6	hang	gerund	the nice white basket not said here		basket		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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