The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 74

But she sat down with the rest, and ate some delicious fruit, and thought she must be in heaven.

Who acts: Elsa · What happens: sit down, eat, think, be · To what, where: delicious fruit, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa), 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	_	3 sat	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 fruit	det
12	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fruit	amod
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ate	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thought	cc
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heaven	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 heaven	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 heaven	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 heaven	case
21	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Elsa			with the rest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	Elsa not said here	some delicious fruit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	Elsa not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	must	Elsa		heaven		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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