The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 10

Deserted by her father, the poor girl sat down under a fir-tree at the edge of the forest and began to weep silently.

Who acts: Deserted father · What happens: desert, sit down, begin, weep · To what, where: fir tree

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deserted father), 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	Deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 father	amod
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 father	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	under	under	ADP	_	15 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
13	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 fir	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 edge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 edge	det
18	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 edge	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 weep	mark
25	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	silently	silently	ADV	_	25 weep	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	desert	participle				vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	girl's Deserted father	a fir tree	at the edge of the forest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	begin	past	girl's Deserted father not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	weep	to-infinitive	girl's Deserted father not said here		silently property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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