The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 28

The youngest, not knowing where to go, returned to the pond, sat down once more on the bank, and began to weep.

Who acts: youngest · What happens: not know, go, return, sit down, begin, weep · To what, where: bank

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 returned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knowing	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 knowing	advmod
5	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 youngest	advcl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 go	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knowing	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 pond	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pond	det
13	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 returned	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 sat	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bank	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bank	det
21	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 weep	mark
26	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	the youngest not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	to-infinitive	the youngest not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	past	the youngest		to the pond result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pond=Result
4	sit down	past	the youngest not said here	the bank	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
5	begin	past	the youngest not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	weep	to-infinitive	the youngest not said here			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 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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