The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 82

At last she sat down at the foot of it in despair, and then suddenly bethought herself of the eggs.

Who acts: sister · What happens: sit down, bethink · To what, where: last, sister

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 (sister), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 foot	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 despair	case
12	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bethought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bethought	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bethought	advmod
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 bethought	advmod
17	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 bethought	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 eggs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eggs	det
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bethought	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	sister			last		at the foot of end; in despair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location
2	bethink	past	sister not said here	sister			then	of the eggs; suddenly property	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 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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