More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 12

The girl, much bewildered, wandered about a little, sat down to rest, and finally fell asleep by the little knoll.

Who acts: girl · What happens: bewilder, wander, sit down, rest, fall · To what, where: girl

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bewildered	punct
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 bewildered	advmod
5	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girl	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girl	punct
7	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 little	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wandered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wandered	parataxis
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sat	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
18	finally	finally	ADV	_	19 fell	advmod
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wandered	conj
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fell	xcomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 knoll	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 knoll	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 knoll	amod
24	knoll	knoll	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bewilder	participle		the girl not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	wander	past	the girl		about a little	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about little=Trajectory
3	sit down	past			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	the girl not said here		by the little knoll; asleep, finally property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by knoll=Location

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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