The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 20

When she reached it she sat down upon the brink to rest, but she had hardly done so when she saw a stately lady coming toward her, surrounded by numbers of attendants.

Who acts: Felicia, stately lady · What happens: reach, sit down, rest, do, see, come · To what, where: pitcher, brink, stately lady

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, stately lady), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 sat	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 brink	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brink	det
10	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 rest	mark
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 brink	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 done	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 done	advmod
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sat	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 saw	advmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lady	det
24	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lady	amod
25	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
26	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 lady	acl
27	toward	toward	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 coming	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 surrounded	punct
30	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 lady	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 numbers	case
32	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 surrounded	obl:agent
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 attendants	case
34	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 numbers	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Felicia	pitcher			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	sit down	past	Felicia		the brink	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon brink=Location
3	rest	to-infinitive	Felicia not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	Felicia			hardly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	Felicia	a stately lady			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
6	come	gerund	a stately lady not said here			toward Felicia	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward she=Initial_Location
7	surround	participle		a stately lady not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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 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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