The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 47

The queen burst into tears at these words, and sobbed out that she would never, never marry again, and that her son’s welfare should be her first thought as long as she lived.

Who acts: queen, welfare · What happens: burst, sob out, not marry, be, think, live · To what, where: tears, queen

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, welfare), 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	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burst	nsubj
3	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 tears	case
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burst	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 words	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burst	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sobbed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sobbed	cc
11	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 burst	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 sobbed	compound:prt
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 marry	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 marry	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 never	punct
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 marry	advmod
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sobbed	advcl
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 marry	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thought	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 thought	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 welfare	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 son	case
27	welfare	welfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thought	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 her	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 her	cop
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 welfare	nmod
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 thought	advmod
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	conj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 thought	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 lived	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lived	nsubj
37	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 long	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	the queen		tears		at this words	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location
2	sob out	participle	the queen not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not marry	would	queen			again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is a	should		queen				tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	queen's son's welfare				first, long property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live	past	welfare					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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