The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 130

Now when the poor child found herself alone in the big wood the very trees around her seemed to assume strange shapes, and she felt so frightened she didn’t know what to do.

Who acts: poor child, trees, SNOWDROP · What happens: find, seem, assume, feel, not know, do · To what, where: SNOWDROP, big wood, strange shapes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor child, trees, SNOWDROP), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 found	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 found	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 found	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 found	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wood	amod
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 trees	advmod
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wood	nmod
16	around	around	ADP	_	18 seemed	mark
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nmod:poss
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trees	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 assume	mark
20	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seemed	xcomp
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shapes	amod
22	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 assume	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 felt	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 felt	nsubj
26	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 frightened	advmod
28	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 felt	xcomp
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 know	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 know	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 know	advmod
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 felt	ccomp
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 do	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 know	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the poor child	SNOWDROP	the big wood the trees	now	alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2	seem	past	the trees not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	assume	to-infinitive	the trees not said here	strange shapes				vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
4	feel	past	SNOWDROP				frightened property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not know	past · do-support	SNOWDROP					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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