The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 25

She burst into tears and answered between her sobs: “Oh, no! they are all very good to me; but I long for news from home, and I pine to see my mother and my sister.”

Who acts: maid, sobs · What happens: burst, answer, be, pine, see, sob · To what, where: tears, maid, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, sobs), 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 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 tears	case
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burst	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 answered	cc
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burst	conj
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 sobs	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sobs	nmod:poss
9	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 answered	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 good	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Oh	punct
14	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	12 Oh	discourse
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Oh	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 good	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 good	cop
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 burst	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 good	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 long	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 long	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 long	nsubj
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 burst	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 news	case
28	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 long	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 home	case
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 news	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pine	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pine	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 pine	nsubj
34	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burst	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 pine	acl
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sister	cc
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sister	nmod:poss
41	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mother	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 pine	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 pine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	past	maid			tears	long property	tree rules
2	answer speech: express	past	maid not said here				between maid's sobs	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	sobs = sob		maid		all, good property	tree rules
4	pine in a quote		maid					tree rules
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	maid not said here	my mother and my sister				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
6	sob		maid					nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=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: «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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