The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 67

One day as she sat, quite tired and sad, on the bank of a little brook, cooling her white feet in the clear running water, and combing her long hair that glittered like gold in the sunshine, a little bent old woman passed by, leaning on a stick.

Who acts: Turritella, long hair · What happens: sit, cool, run, comb, glitter, pass by · To what, where: bank, white feet, clear running water, long hair, sunshine, little bent old woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Turritella, long hair), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sat	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sad	cc
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tired	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bank	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 bank	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bank	det
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 brook	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brook	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brook	amod
18	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bank	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cooling	punct
20	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feet	amod
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cooling	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
26	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
27	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cooling	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 combing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 combing	cc
31	combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 cooling	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hair	nmod:poss
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hair	amod
34	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 combing	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 glittered	nsubj
36	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hair	acl:relcl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 gold	case
38	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 glittered	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 sunshine	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sunshine	det
41	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 glittered	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 woman	punct
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 woman	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 woman	amod
45	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 woman	amod
46	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 woman	amod
47	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hair	appos
48	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 woman	acl
49	by	by	ADP	_	48 passed	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 leaning	punct
51	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 combing	advcl
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 stick	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 stick	det
54	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 leaning	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Turritella		the bank of a little brook	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	cool	gerund	Turritella not said here	Turritella's white feet	the clear running water			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	run	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	comb	gerund	Turritella not said here	Turritella's long hair				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	glitter	past	Turritella's long hair		the sunshine		like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
6	pass by	participle		a little bent old woman not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lean	gerund	Turritella not said here		a stick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=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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