The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 7

Then the poor girl returned to the well, and not knowing what she was about, in the despair and misery of her heart she sprang into the well and sank to the bottom.

Who acts: poor girl, girl, heart · What happens: return, not know, be, spring, sink, despair · To what, where: despair, heart, well

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 (poor girl, girl, heart), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knowing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knowing	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 knowing	advmod
12	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 returned	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 knowing	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 about	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 about	cop
16	about	about	ADV	_	13 what	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 despair	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 despair	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 despair	det
20	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knowing	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 misery	cc
22	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 despair	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 heart	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 heart	nmod:poss
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 despair	nmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sprang	nsubj
27	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heart	acl:relcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 well	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 well	det
30	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sprang	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sank	cc
32	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sprang	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 bottom	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bottom	det
35	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sank	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the poor girl			then	to the well result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to well=Result
2	not know	gerund	the poor girl not said here		the despair of girl's heart and misery			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	is	past	girl				about property	tree rules
4	spring	past	girl	girl's heart not said here	the well			tree rules
5	sink	past	girl not said here				to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	despair		girl's heart					nom despair «state intransitive»: of=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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