More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 4

At last she reached a knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands.

Who acts: girl, feet · What happens: reach, run, shade, sit down, bury · To what, where: knoll, last, little burn, face, hands

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, feet), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reached	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knoll	det
6	knoll	knoll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 ran	mark
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 burn	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 burn	amod
14	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shaded	punct
16	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 burn	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 woodbine	case
18	woodbine	woodbine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shaded	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 roses	cc
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 roses	amod
21	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 woodbine	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sat	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 burying	punct
29	burying	bury	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sat	advcl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 burying	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hands	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hands	nmod:poss
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 burying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	girl	a knoll	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent knoll=Theme at last=Asset
2	run	past	feet	a little burn			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme burn=Trajectory
3	shade	participle		a little burn not said here		with woodbine and wild roses	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past	girl		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bury	gerund	girl not said here	girl's face	girl's hands		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in hand=Destination

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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