More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 109

The little girl cried a great deal, and a man with a big dog came that way and heard her crying.

Who acts: little girl, man, girl · What happens: cry, come, hear · To what, where: great deal, way, girl

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, man, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 dog	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dog	amod
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	parataxis
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl:unmarked
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	obj
22	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 heard	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the little girl	a great deal	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic
2	come	past	a man with a big dog	that way	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	a man with a big dog not said here	girl	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	gerund	girl not said here		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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