The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 98

But the doe only shook her head; and the two sat down and wept with fright.

Who acts: doe, two · What happens: shake, sit down, weep · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doe, two), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 shook	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doe	det
3	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 shook	advmod
5	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 two	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shook	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wept	cc
15	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 fright	case
17	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wept	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the doe	doe's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	sit down	past	the two			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	past	the two not said here		with fright	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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