The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 3

As the girl never came back the mother went down to see what had become of her, and found her sitting on the stairs, her head in her hands, while by her side the beer was running all over the floor, as she had forgotten to close the tap.

Who acts: mother, beer · What happens: not come back, go down, see, become, find, sit · To what, where: mother, head, stairs, floor, tap · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, beer), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 girl	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 become	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
15	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 see	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 become	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	obj
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 found	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 stairs	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stairs	det
25	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 head	punct
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hands	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 head	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 running	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 running	mark
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 side	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 side	nmod:poss
36	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 running	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 beer	det
38	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 running	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 running	aux
40	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sitting	conj
41	all	all	ADV	_	40 running	advmod
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 floor	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 floor	det
44	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 running	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 forgotten	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 forgotten	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 forgotten	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 forgotten	aux
49	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 found	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 close	mark
51	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 forgotten	xcomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 tap	det
53	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 close	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come back	past				as the girl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go down	past	the mother			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	see	to-infinitive	the mother not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	become	past · perfect				of mother	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	find	past		mother			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme
6	sit	gerund	mother not said here	mother's head in mother's hands	the stairs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stair=Location
7	run	past · progressive	the beer		the floor	by mother's side; all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
8	forget	past · perfect	mother				tree rules
9	not close	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the tap			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tap=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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