The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 6

Here, hidden from everyone, she sat down on a stone and began to think what she should do to save her child.

Who acts: river · What happens: hide, sit down, begin, think, do, save · To what, where: everyone, stone, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (river), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Here	advcl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 hidden	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 do	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 think	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 save	mark
22	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 do	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 child	nmod:poss
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 save	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	participle	river not said here		everyone	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from everyone=Beneficiary
2	sit down	past	river		a stone; here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
3	begin	past	river not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	river not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	should	river			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	save	to-infinitive	river not said here	river's child		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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