The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 98

She was too tired and miserable to walk another step, so she sat down in a doorway and cried bitterly all night long.

Who acts: Turritella · What happens: be, walk, sit down, cry · To what, where: step, doorway

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), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 miserable	cc
6	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tired	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 miserable	advcl
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 step	det
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 doorway	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 doorway	det
18	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
21	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	20 cried	advmod
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cried	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 cried	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Turritella				tired property	tree rules
2	be		Turritella not said here					tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive	Turritella not said here	another step				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory
4	sit down	past	Turritella		a doorway			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
5	cry speech: express	past	Turritella not said here			night	bitterly, long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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