The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 103

At last, in the evening, she burst into tears, and when he inquired what was the matter, she sobbed out:

Who acts: sun, man, matter · What happens: burst, inquire, be, sob out · To what, where: tears

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, man, matter), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 evening	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 evening	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burst	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 evening	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 burst	nsubj
9	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 tears	case
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burst	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inquired	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 inquired	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 inquired	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 inquired	nsubj
16	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burst	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 inquired	obj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 matter	det
20	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 what	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sobbed	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sobbed	nsubj
23	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burst	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 sobbed	compound:prt
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	burst	past	sun	tears	evening	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	past	man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the matter			tree rules
4	sob out	past	sun			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 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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