The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 72

Quite tired out by so many new and wonderful experiences, the Princess sat down to rest at the foot of a tree, and there she fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: sit down, rest, fall · To what, where: foot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 tired	advmod
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 tired	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	10 experiences	case
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 experiences	amod
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 experiences	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wonderful	cc
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 new	conj
10	experiences	experience	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tired	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tired	parataxis
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 rest	mark
17	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sat	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 foot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 foot	det
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rest	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 foot	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 fell	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 fell	advmod
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fell	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Princess		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here	the foot of a tree		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
3	fall	past	Princess	there	asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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