The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 88

Well, the witch’s daughter heard about it too, and she came to see the strange girl; and what did she find her doing but cutting out the pattern of a gown from brown paper; and as she cut away, the paper became the richest silk she ever saw.

Who acts: daughter, girl, paper, gown · What happens: hear, come, see, find, do, cut out · To what, where: strange girl, pattern, richest silk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, girl, paper, gown), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 witch	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obl
10	too	too	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
18	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 girl	amod
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 find	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 find	obj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 find	aux
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 find	nsubj
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heard	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 doing	nmod:poss
27	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 find	ccomp
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 cutting	cc
29	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 doing	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 cutting	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pattern	det
32	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cutting	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 gown	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 gown	det
35	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pattern	nmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 paper	case
37	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 paper	amod
38	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gown	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 became	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 became	cc
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 cut	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 cut	nsubj
43	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 became	advcl
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 cut	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 cut	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 paper	det
47	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 became	nsubj
48	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 silk	det
50	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 silk	amod
51	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 became	xcomp
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 saw	nsubj
53	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	54 saw	advmod
54	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 silk	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the witch's daughter			about body	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
2	come	past	daughter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	the strange girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
4	find	past · do-support	girl				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
5	do	gerund					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cut out	gerund		the pattern of a gown from brown paper			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector pattern=Eventuality
7	cut away	past	girl			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	become	past	the paper	the richest silk			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	see	past	girl	the richest silk not said here	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silk=Stimulus
10	pattern		a gown from brown paper				nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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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