The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 52

The first thing she did when she reached her room was to throw the cabbage out of the window.

Who acts: Queen, first thing · What happens: do, reach, be · To what, where: first thing, room, window

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, first thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 throw	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 throw	mark
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cabbage	det
15	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Queen	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	reach	past	Queen	Queen's room			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme
3	is	past	the first thing		the window	throw property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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