The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 15

As usual, her attendants let her do anything she pleased, and sitting down on a mossy bank where a little stream tinkled by, soon fell sound asleep.

Who acts: attendants, princess · What happens: let, do, sit down, tinkle, fall, sound · To what, where: princess, anything, mossy bank, little stream

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, princess), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 usual	case
2	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 let	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 attendants	nmod:poss
5	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pleased	nsubj
11	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 anything	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sitting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sitting	cc
14	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 let	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 sitting	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 bank	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bank	det
18	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bank	amod
19	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 bank	nmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stream	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stream	amod
23	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 where	nsubj
24	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 stream	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	24 tinkled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 fell	advmod
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sitting	conj
29	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fell	xcomp
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sound	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	princess's attendants	princess		as usual	tree rules
2	do	infinitive	princess not said here	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	sit down	gerund	princess's attendants not said here		a mossy bank	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
4	tinkle	participle		a little stream not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	princess's attendants not said here			soon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	sound	infinitive	princess's attendants not said here			asleep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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