The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 2

Helena sat down on the rocks which had been pointed out to her as the site of the castle, feeling very depressed, but at the same time with the lurking hope that the kind Fairy would come once more to her aid.

Who acts: Helena, lurking hope · What happens: sit down, point out, feel, come · To what, where: rocks, Helena, aid

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena, lurking hope), 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	Helena	helena	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rocks	det
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pointed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pointed	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 pointed	aux:pass
10	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rocks	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 pointed	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pointed	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 site	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 site	det
16	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pointed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 castle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 site	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feeling	punct
21	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 depressed	advmod
23	depressed	depressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feeling	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 time	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 time	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 hope	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hope	det
32	lurking	lurking	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hope	compound
33	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	nmod
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 come	nsubj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Fairy	det
36	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Fairy	amod
37	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 hope	acl:relcl
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 come	advmod
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 aid	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 aid	nmod:poss
44	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Helena			the rocks	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
2	point out	past · perfect · passive		the rocks	Helena			as the site of the castle	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient
3	feel	gerund	Helena not said here					depressed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	come	would	the lurking hope			Helena's aid			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location

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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