The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 57

One day Rosalie was sitting alone in her room thinking of her troubles when she suddenly saw a pen get up from off the desk and begin to write all by itself on a sheet of white paper.

Who acts: Rosalie, thinking · What happens: sit, think, see, get up, begin, write · To what, where: room, pen, desk, sheet

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosalie, thinking), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 room	nmod:poss
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 get	csubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 troubles	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 troubles	nmod:poss
13	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thinking	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 saw	advmod
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thinking	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pen	det
19	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	conj
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 desk	case
23	off	off	ADP	_	25 desk	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 desk	det
25	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 begin	cc
27	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 write	mark
29	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begin	xcomp
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 itself	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 itself	case
32	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 write	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 sheet	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 sheet	det
35	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 write	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 paper	case
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 paper	amod
38	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sheet	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Rosalie		Rosalie's room	day	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	think speech: other	gerund					of Rosalie's troubles	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Rosalie	a pen			suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pen=Stimulus
4	get up	present	thinking		the desk			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from desk=Destination
5	begin	infinitive	thinking not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	write	to-infinitive	thinking not said here		a sheet of white paper		by desk	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sheet=Destination
7	trouble		Rosalie					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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