The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 43

Her mother and sister, who were in front of their house, uttered cries of admiration and astonishment when they saw her, and their cries became still louder when Lizina, taking her handkerchief from her pocket, drew out also a handful of gold.

Who acts: mother, cries, admiration · What happens: be, utter, see, become, take, draw out · To what, where: front, donkey, handkerchief, pocket, handful

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 (mother, cries, admiration), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sister	cc
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 front	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 front	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 front	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cries	punct
14	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cries	amod
15	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mother	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 admiration	case
17	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cries	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 astonishment	cc
19	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 admiration	conj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 became	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cries	nmod:poss
27	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 became	nsubj
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 louder	advmod
30	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 became	xcomp
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 Lizina	advmod
32	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 became	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 taking	punct
34	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 became	advcl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 handkerchief	nmod:poss
36	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taking	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 pocket	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 pocket	nmod:poss
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taking	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 drew	punct
41	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 drew	compound:prt
43	also	also	ADV	_	45 handful	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 handful	det
45	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drew	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 gold	case
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 handful	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	donkey's mother and sister and uttered cries of admiration and astonishment		front	of mother's house	tree rules
2	utter speech: other	participle					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	donkey's mother and sister and uttered cries of admiration and astonishment	donkey			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	become	past	mother's cries			loud property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	take	gerund	mother's cries not said here	Lizina's handkerchief	Lizina's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
6	draw out	past	donkey's mother and sister and uttered cries of admiration and astonishment not said here	a handful of gold			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
7	cry		admiration and astonishment				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent
8	cry		mother				nom cry «communication 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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