The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 31
The queen burst into tears and wept sore; then amidst her sobs she drew three apples from her pocket and held them out, saying, “My son, take these apples and give heed unto my words.
Who acts: queen, my · What happens: burst, weep, draw, hold out, say, take · To what, where: tears, three apples, pocket, apples, heed · 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, my), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wept | cc |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burst | conj |
| 8 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wept | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 drew | advmod |
| 11 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 13 sobs | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sobs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drew | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burst | conj |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 apples | nummod |
| 17 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drew | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 pocket | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obl | ||
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 held | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saying | punct |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 drew | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 29 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saying | vocative |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 take | punct |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | parataxis |
| 33 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 apples | det |
| 34 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 take | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 give | cc |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 take | conj |
| 37 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obj |
| 38 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 40 words | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 words | nmod:poss |
| 40 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 give | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the queen | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the queen not said here | sore property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | queen | three apples | queen's pocket | then | amidst queen's sobs | tree rules | |
| 4 | hold out | past | queen not said here | apples = apple | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | queen not said here | My son vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | this apples | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | |||||
| 7 | give in a quote | present | heed | unto my words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sob | queen | nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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