The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 39

All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping, and his mother who came in asked: “Why are you weeping so bitterly, my son?”

Who acts: rest, mother, you · What happens: sit, come in, ask, weep · To what, where: corner weeping · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, mother, you), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 rest	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 weeping	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 weeping	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weeping	compound
12	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mother	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mother	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 came	xcomp
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 weeping	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 weeping	punct
23	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 weeping	advmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 weeping	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 weeping	nsubj
26	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 bitterly	advmod
28	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	26 weeping	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 son	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 weeping	vocative
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 weeping	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	all rest of the day	a corner weeping		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in weeping=Location
2	come in	past	rest's mother			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	participle	rest's mother not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weep in a quote	present · progressive	you		my son vocative; bitterly 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 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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