The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 30

At last, weary and terrified, she sat down and cried.

Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: sit down, cry

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sat	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weary	punct
4	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 last	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 terrified	cc
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 last	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Graciosa						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Graciosa not said here						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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