English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 6

And she put down the candle and the jug, and sat herself down and began a-crying.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: put down, sit down, begin, cry · To what, where: candle, daughter

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	_	3 put	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 candle	det
6	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 jug	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jug	det
9	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 candle	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 sat	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crying	det
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 a	punct
19	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 began	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	put down	past	daughter	the candle and the jug	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent candle=Goal
2	sit down	past		daughter	tree rules
3	begin	past			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	gerund			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: «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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