More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 26

Finding herself very hungry after her long day on the knoll, the girl took down pudding after pudding, fried and ate them, and at last went to bed too.

Who acts: girl · What happens: find, take down, fry, eat, go · To what, where: mother, pudding, eyes, last

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	Finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 took	advcl
2	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Finding	obj
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Finding	xcomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 day	nmod:poss
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 knoll	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 knoll	det
11	knoll	knoll	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finding	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 pudding	case
19	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fried	punct
21	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 pudding	acl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ate	cc
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fried	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ate	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 went	obl
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 bed	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
32	too	too	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	the girl not said here	mother			hungry property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2	take down	past	the girl	pudding		after pudding		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Theme
3	fry	participle		pudding not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	eat	past		eyes = eye				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	go	past	the girl not said here		last		to bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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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