The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 15
But when the princess heard these words, she burst into tears, and sobbed out:
Who acts: princess · What happens: hear, burst, sob out · To what, where: words, tears
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 burst | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 burst | advcl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 burst | nsubj |
| 10 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 tears | case |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burst | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sobbed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sobbed | cc |
| 15 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 burst | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sobbed | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the princess | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | princess | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sob out | participle | princess not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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