The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 20

Presently she was too tired to advance another step, so she threw herself down upon the ground and cried miserably:

Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, advance, throw down, cry · To what, where: step, Princess, ground

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 advance	mark
7	advance	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tired	xcomp
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 step	det
9	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advance	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 threw	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	parataxis
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 threw	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 threw	compound:prt
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threw	conj
21	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	20 cried	advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Princess			presently, tired property	tree rules
2	advance	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	another step			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer step=Patient
3	throw down	past	Princess	Princess	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon ground=Destination
4	cry speech: express	past	Princess not said here			miserably property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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