Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 5

She sat down upon a hillock, and cried so much that her tears flowed almost like rivers out of her eyes!

Who acts: sister, tears · What happens: sit down, cry, flow · To what, where: hillock, eyes

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, tears), 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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 hillock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hillock	det
6	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 cried	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 flowed	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tears	nmod:poss
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flowed	nsubj
15	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	advcl
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 like	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 rivers	case
18	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flowed	obl
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 eyes	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 eyes	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flowed	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	sister	a hillock	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hillock=Location
2	cry speech: express	past	sister not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	flow	past	sister's tears	sister's eyes	like rivers	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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