Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 12

Then she sat and wept and screamed with all the strength of her body, over the misfortune which lay before her.

Who acts: Clever, misfortune · What happens: sit, weep, scream, lie · To what, where: misfortune

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clever, misfortune), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wept	cc
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 screamed	cc
7	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 strength	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 strength	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strength	det
11	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screamed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 body	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strength	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 misfortune	punct
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 misfortune	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 misfortune	det
18	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screamed	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 misfortune	acl:relcl
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Clever		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	Clever not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scream speech: express	past	Clever not said here	the misfortune		with all strength of Clever's body	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over misfortune=Location
4	lie	past	the misfortune		before Clever		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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