More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 5

And bang she came on to the hard boards, and found herself sitting, weeping and wailing, by the bedside at home all alone.

Who acts: you, t · What happens: bang, come on, find, sit, weep, wail · To what, where: hard boards, t, bedside

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, t), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 bang	cc
2	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bang	ccomp
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 boards	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boards	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boards	amod
9	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 found	obj
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 found	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weeping	punct
16	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sitting	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wailing	cc
18	wailing	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sitting	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bedside	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 bedside	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bedside	det
22	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wailing	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 home	case
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bedside	nmod
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 alone	advmod
26	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 wailing	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bang	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	come on	past	t		the hard boards		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to board=Initial_Location
3	find	past	t not said here	t			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme
4	sit	gerund	t not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	gerund	t not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wail	gerund	t not said here	the bedside		at home; alone property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent bedside=Theme at home=Stimulus

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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