English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 18

And when she combed the hair fell over her knees, and rolled right down to the ground.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: comb, fall, roll · To what, where: hair, knees, ground

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 fell	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 combed	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 combed	nsubj
4	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hair	det
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 combed	obj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 knees	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knees	nmod:poss
10	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rolled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rolled	cc
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
14	right	right	ADV	_	15 down	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	13 rolled	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	comb	past	stepmother	the hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	fall	past			stepmother's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over knee=Location
3	roll	past			the ground	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination

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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