Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 38
Babette threw herself on the bed, and wept bitterly. "
Who acts: Babette · What happens: throw, weep · To what, where: friend, bed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette), 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bed | det |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wept | cc |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 10 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 9 wept | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Babette | friend | the bed | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on bed=Destination | |||
| 2 | weep | past | Babette not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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