The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 46

She was not only very old, but she was very ugly, with a hump on her back and a bald head, and when the heralds saw her they broke into rude laughter.

Who acts: woman, heralds · What happens: not be, be, see, break · To what, where: woman, rude laughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, heralds), 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	6 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 old	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ugly	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 ugly	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ugly	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ugly	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 ugly	advmod
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hump	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 hump	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hump	det
16	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ugly	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hump	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 head	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 head	det
22	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 head	amod
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 back	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 saw	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 saw	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 heralds	det
28	heralds	herald	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 broke	nsubj
32	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saw	ccomp
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 laughter	case
34	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 laughter	amod
35	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 broke	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	woman		old property	tree rules
2	is	past	woman		with a hump on woman's back and a bald head; ugly property	tree rules
3	see	past	the heralds	woman		tree rules
4	break	past	heralds = herald		into rude laughter result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into laughter=Result

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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