The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 84

Then, when both were standing with the milk reaching to their necks, she sent for the horse which had fought Sunlight, and made a secret sign to him.

Who acts: both, milk, wish · What happens: stand, reach, send, fight, make · To what, where: horse, secret sign, emperor

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (both, milk, wish), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 standing	advmod
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 standing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sent	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 milk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 milk	det
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
10	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 milk	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 necks	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 necks	nmod:poss
13	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reaching	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	nsubj
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 horse	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fought	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fought	aux
22	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 horse	acl:relcl
23	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fought	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sign	det
28	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sign	amod
29	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	both				with the milk	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	gerund	the milk not said here				to robes's necks	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	send	past	wish			then	for the horse	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fight	past · perfect · passive		the horse				tree rules
5	make	past	wish not said here	a secret sign	emperor			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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