The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 21

She had not gone far before the heat of the sun and the weight of the box tired her so much that she sat down to rest in the shade of a little wood which lay on one side of a green meadow.

Who acts: Graciosa, little wood, sun · What happens: not go, sit down, rest, lie, heat, shade · To what, where: heat, shade, one side, little wood

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, little wood, sun), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 heat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heat	det
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heat	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 weight	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weight	det
14	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heat	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 box	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 box	det
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weight	nmod
18	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 box	amod
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tired	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	24 sat	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sat	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 sat	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rest	mark
27	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 shade	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shade	det
30	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rest	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 wood	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wood	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wood	amod
34	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shade	nmod
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wood	acl:relcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 side	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 side	nummod
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 meadow	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 meadow	det
42	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 meadow	amod
43	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 side	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Graciosa		the heat of the sun and the weight of the box	far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before heat=Location
2	sit down	past	Graciosa			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here		the shade of a little wood		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location
4	lie	past	a little wood		one side of a green meadow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
5	heat		the sun				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
6	shade			a little wood			nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

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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