The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 119

But when her mother-in-law saw it was a girl, she wrung her hands and wept, saying:

Who acts: mother, law · What happens: see, be, wring, weep, say · To what, where: girl, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, law), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 wrung	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrung	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 girl	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 girl	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrung	nsubj
16	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrung	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wrung	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wept	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 wrung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	daughter's mother in law		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	law	a girl	tree rules
3	wring	past	mother	daughter's hands	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	weep	past	mother not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	gerund	mother not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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