Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 16

But her father began to be very sorrowful, and to weep, saying, ‘Alas, my dearest child!

Who acts: father · What happens: begin, be, weep, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 sorrowful	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sorrowful	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 sorrowful	advmod
8	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weep	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weep	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 weep	mark
12	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 weep	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 child	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 child	punct
17	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	21 child	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Alas	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 child	nmod:poss
20	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 child	amod
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	ccomp
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	rose's father		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	rose's father not said here	sorrowful property	tree rules
3	weep	to-infinitive			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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