English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 77

And all the day the girl sat trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night.

Who acts: girl, name · What happens: sit, try, think, say, come · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, name), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trying	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 names	case
12	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 think	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 think	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	obl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 night	case
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the girl		day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	try	gerund	the girl not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the girl not said here			of names	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		name			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
5	come	past	name		night		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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