The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 60
She was half drowned in tears, crying out:
What happens: drown, cry out · To what, where: woman, tears
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drowned | aux:pass |
| 3 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 drowned | advmod |
| 4 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tears | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drowned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crying | punct |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 drowned | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 crying | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past · passive | woman | tears | half property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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