More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 51

At that his mother burst into tears, and went off to bed in despair, certain that after such words something dreadful would happen; while her naughty little son sat on his stool by the fire, not at all put out by her crying.

Who acts: mother, something dreadful, naughty little son · What happens: burst, go off, happen, sit, not put out, cry · To what, where: tears, despair, stool, all

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, something dreadful, naughty little son), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 mother	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mother	det
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burst	nsubj
5	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 tears	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burst	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burst	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 despair	case
15	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 certain	punct
17	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 despair	amod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 happen	mark
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 words	case
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 happen	obl
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 dreadful	compound
23	dreadful	dreadful	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 happen	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 happen	aux
25	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 certain	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 sat	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
29	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 son	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 son	amod
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burst	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 stool	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stool	nmod:poss
35	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 fire	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fire	det
38	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 put	advmod
41	at	at	SCONJ	_	43 put	mark
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 put	nsubj:pass
43	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 sat	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 put	compound:prt
45	by	by	SCONJ	_	47 crying	mark
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 crying	nmod:poss
47	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 put	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	boy's mother		tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go off	past	boy's mother not said here		despair		to bed	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in despair=Location
3	happen	would	something dreadful			after such words		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	past	wind's naughty little son		boy's stool		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
5	not put out	participle · passive		all				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
6	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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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