The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 16

Now the queen imagined that no one but herself knew how sad she was, but one morning her son said to her, “Mother, why do you cry the whole day long?”

Who acts: queen, one, morning son · What happens: imagine, know, be, say, cry · To what, where: queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, one, morning son), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 imagined	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imagined	nsubj
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	nsubj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 herself	cc
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 one	conj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imagined	advcl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sad	advmod
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knew	ccomp
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sad	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sad	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 morning	nummod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	compound
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imagined	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Mother	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Mother	punct
26	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cry	punct
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 cry	advmod
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cry	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 cry	nsubj
31	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 Mother	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 day	amod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cry	obl:unmarked
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 cry	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 cry	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 Mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	past	the queen		now		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	know	past	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	queen			sad property	tree rules
4	say speech: ask	past	queen's morning son	queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
5	cry speech: express in a quote	present · do-support	queen		day	long property	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: «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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