English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 19

So she seated herself in it, and there she sate till the bottom of the chair came out, and down she came, plump upon the ground.

Who acts: Woman, bottom · What happens: seat, sate, come out, come · To what, where: Woman, chair

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woman, bottom), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 seated	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sate	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 sate	expl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sate	nsubj
11	sate	sate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seated	conj
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bottom	det
14	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 chair	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chair	det
17	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bottom	nmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sate	advcl
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
22	down	down	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 plump	punct
26	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 came	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plump	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	Woman	Woman	chair		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Value in it=Location
2	sate	infinitive	Woman		there		vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument
3	come out	past	the bottom of the chair			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	Woman			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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