The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 37
And putting her head down, she began to weep as loudly as ever.
Who acts: help · What happens: put down, begin, weep · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 putting | cc |
| 2 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 began | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 putting | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 putting | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 putting | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 weep | mark |
| 10 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 loudly | advmod |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 10 weep | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 ever | case |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 loudly | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | gerund | help not said here | help's head | down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | |||
| 2 | begin | past | help | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | weep | to-infinitive | help not said here | loudly 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: «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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