The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 114

The poor child sat down to her task with her eyes so full of tears that she could hardly see to begin.

Who acts: poor child, HELENA, tears · What happens: sit down, see, begin, task · To what, where: tears

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (poor child, HELENA, tears), 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	3 child	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 task	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 task	nmod:poss
8	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 full	advmod
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 tears	case
15	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 full	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 see	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tears	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 begin	mark
22	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the poor child		to HELENA's task; with HELENA's eyes; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	could	HELENA	tears	hardly property	tree rules
3	begin	to-infinitive	tears not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	task		HELENA			nom task «act 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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