Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 43

When her mother wept and exclaimed, "Ah, Inge! what grief thou hast caused thy mother" she would say, "Oh that I had never been born!

Who acts: mother, thou, punishment · What happens: weep, exclaim, cause, say, not bear · To what, where: grief, punishment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, thou, punishment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:2684): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wept	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 say	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 exclaimed	cc
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 caused	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 caused	punct
9	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	17 caused	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Inge	punct
11	Inge	Inge	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 caused	vocative
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Inge	punct
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 grief	det
14	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caused	obj
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 caused	nsubj
16	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 caused	aux
17	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 exclaimed	ccomp
18	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caused	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 caused	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 say	aux
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 born	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 born	punct
26	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	32 born	discourse
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 born	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 born	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 born	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 born	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 born	aux:pass
32	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 say	ccomp
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	punishment's mother			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	exclaim speech: express	past	punishment's mother not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cause in a quote	present · perfect	thou	what grief	Inge vocative	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer grief=Theme mother=Eventuality
4	say speech: express	would	punishment			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not bear in a quote	past · perfect · passive		punishment		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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