The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 134

Her friends all ran to meet her, and, weeping, she told them that the buffalo was dead.

Who acts: friends, mother, buffalo · What happens: run, meet, weep, tell, be · To what, where: mother, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (friends, mother, buffalo), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 meet	mark
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meet	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weeping	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weeping	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weeping	punct
11	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ran	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 dead	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 buffalo	det
18	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dead	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 told	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	mother's friends			all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	mother's friends not said here	mother			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	weep	gerund	mother's friends not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	mother		friends = friend		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	is	past	the buffalo			dead property	tree rules

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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