The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 128
Very soon she came back weeping, and sobbed out:
Who acts: girl · What happens: come back, weep, sob out
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sobbed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sobbed | cc |
| 9 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 weeping | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sobbed | compound:prt |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | girl | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sob out | participle | girl not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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