The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 23

“That is good news indeed,” answered she; but it did not seem to make any difference to her, and the next morning she was weeping and wailing as loudly as ever.

Who acts: That, good news, it, news · What happens: be, answer, not seem, make, weep, wail · To what, where: good news, mother, difference · 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 (That, good news, it, news), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 news	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 news	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 news	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 news	amod
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 news	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 news	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 news	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 seem	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 seem	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seem	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seem	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 seem	advmod
16	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seem	xcomp
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 difference	det
20	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 weeping	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 weeping	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 morning	det
26	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 morning	amod
27	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 weeping	obl:unmarked
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 weeping	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 weeping	aux
30	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 answered	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wailing	cc
32	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 weeping	conj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 loudly	advmod
34	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	32 wailing	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 ever	case
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 wailing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	good news			indeed property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	good news		mother			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	not seem	past · do-support	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	make	to-infinitive		any difference	mother			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product
5	weep	past · progressive	news			morning		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wail	gerund	news not said here				loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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