The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 22

But after she had been some time with Mother Holle she grew sad and depressed, and at first she hardly knew herself what was the matter.

Who acts: girl, matter · What happens: be, grow, know · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, matter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	7 time	case
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 time	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 time	cop
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 Mother	case
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 time	nmod
10	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mother	flat
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 depressed	cc
15	depressed	depressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sad	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knew	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 first	case
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 knew	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
21	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 knew	advmod
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 knew	obj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 knew	ccomp
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 matter	det
27	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 what	nsubj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	girl		after some time	with Mother	tree rules
2	grow	past	girl			sad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	girl	girl		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
4	is a	past	the matter				tree rules

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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