The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 22

They laid her in the cradle and wept bitterly, for they thought that by the next morning she would be lost to them.

Who acts: veins · What happens: lay, weep, think, lose · To what, where: child, cradle, veins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veins), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cradle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cradle	det
6	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wept	cc
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	8 wept	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 thought	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wept	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 lost	mark
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 morning	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 morning	amod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lost	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lost	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 lost	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 lost	aux:pass
22	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thought	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lost	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	veins = vein	child		the cradle			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cradle=Destination
2	weep	past	veins = vein not said here					bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	veins = vein						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	lose	would · passive		child	veins = vein		morning		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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