The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 91

And she sat down on the bank, with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands, her eyes fixed on the fishes as they flashed past.

Who acts: Bellah, eyes · What happens: sit down, fix, flash · To what, where: eyes, bank

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellah, eyes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 sat	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 elbows	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 elbows	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 elbows	nmod:poss
11	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 knees	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 knees	nmod:poss
14	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chin	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 chin	nmod:poss
17	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knees	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eyes	punct
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
24	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 eyes	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 fishes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fishes	det
27	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fixed	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 flashed	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 flashed	nsubj
30	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	advcl
31	past	past	ADV	_	30 flashed	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Bellah	Bellah's eyes	the bank	with Bellah's elbows; on Bellah's knees and Bellah's chin; in Bellah's hands	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	fix	participle		Bellah's eyes not said here		on the fishes	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	flash	past	eyes = eye			past property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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