The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 60

For a while she walked, not knowing whither she went, then by and bye she grew tired, and sat under a tree to rest and to hush her baby to sleep.

Who acts: girl · What happens: walk, not know, go, grow, sit, rest · To what, where: tree, baby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knowing	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 knowing	advmod
8	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 walked	advcl
9	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	11 went	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knowing	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 grew	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 bye	case
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bye	cc
16	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 tree	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rest	mark
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sat	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hush	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hush	mark
30	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 rest	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 baby	nmod:poss
32	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hush	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 sleep	mark
34	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hush	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	girl			while		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know	gerund	girl not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past	girl				whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	girl			then	by bye; tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bye=Location
5	sit	past	girl not said here		a tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
6	rest	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hush	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl's baby				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
8	sleep	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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