The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 67

But when she got as far as the same fatal orange tree, and saw it covered with flowers and fruit, she stopped and began to gather some of the oranges--and then, putting down her basket, she sat down to eat them.

Who acts: Bellissima, tree · What happens: get, see, cover, stop, begin, gather · To what, where: tree, some, basket, oranges

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima, tree), 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	_	15 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	advcl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 got	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 tree	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
10	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
11	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj
17	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 saw	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 covered	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fruit	cc
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flowers	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stopped	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 gather	mark
28	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 gather	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 oranges	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 oranges	det
32	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 some	nmod
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 putting	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 putting	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 putting	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 putting	punct
37	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 saw	advcl
38	down	down	ADP	_	40 basket	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 basket	nmod:poss
40	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 putting	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sat	punct
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sat	nsubj
43	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	parataxis
44	down	down	ADP	_	43 sat	compound:prt
45	to	to	PART	_	46 eat	mark
46	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 sat	advcl
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 eat	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Bellissima			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	past		tree			tree rules
3	cover	participle	tree not said here			with flowers and fruit	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
4	stop	past	Bellissima				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	begin	past	Bellissima not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	gather	to-infinitive	Bellissima not said here	some			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
7	put down	gerund		Bellissima's basket	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent basket=Goal
8	sit down	past	Bellissima				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	eat	to-infinitive	Bellissima not said here	oranges = orange			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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