The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 10

The girl burst into tears when the boy told her what was in the letter which her father had bade her to carry to him.

Who acts: girl, boy, father · What happens: burst, tell, be, have, carry · To what, where: tears, girl, letter, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, boy, father), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	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	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 letter	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 letter	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 letter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 letter	det
15	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	ccomp
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	obj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 letter	acl:relcl
20	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 carry	mark
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	burst	past	the girl			tears	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the boy		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past				the letter	tree rules
4	have	past	girl's father	the letter			tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive	girl's father not said here		boy		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination

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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