The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 196

So the poor miller’s daughter sat down, and didn’t know what in the world she was to do.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: sit down, not know, be · To what, where: world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 miller	amod
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sat	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 do	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the poor miller's daughter			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	past · do-support	the poor miller's daughter not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past	daughter	the world	do property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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