The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 13

Now when the girls found themselves alone they felt so sad and dull that they did not know what to do.

Who acts: girls · What happens: find, feel, not know, do · To what, where: girls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 felt	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 found	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 felt	advcl
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 found	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 felt	nsubj
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sad	advmod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 felt	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dull	cc
13	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sad	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 know	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sad	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 know	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the girls	girls = girl		alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
2	feel	past	girls = girl		now	sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not know	past · do-support	girls = girl				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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