The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 58

When the nurse went to fix the cord she saw tears falling from its eyes, and that it was dejected and sorrowful “O Lady Jamila! this is a wonderful deer, it is crying; I never saw a deer cry before.”

Who acts: nurse, girl, tears, this, cord, kerchief · What happens: go, fix, see, fall, deject, be · To what, where: cord, tears, eyes, wonderful deer, deer cry

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, girl, tears, this), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 saw	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fix	mark
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cord	det
8	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fix	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cord	acl:relcl
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
12	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 tears	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 eyes	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 falling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dejected	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dejected	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 dejected	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dejected	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dejected	aux:pass
21	dejected	deject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sorrowful	cc
23	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dejected	conj
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 crying	punct
25	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	27 Jamila	case
26	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Jamila	compound
27	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 crying	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Jamila	punct
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 deer	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 deer	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 deer	det
32	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 deer	amod
33	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Jamila	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Jamila	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 crying	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 crying	aux
37	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sorrowful	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 saw	nsubj
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 saw	advmod
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 cry	det
43	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cry	compound
44	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saw	obj
45	before	before	ADV	_	41 saw	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 saw	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the nurse				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fix	to-infinitive	the nurse not said here	the cord			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
3	see	past	girl	tears			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus
4	fall	gerund	tears not said here		cord's eyes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location
5	deject	past · passive		cord			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	is a in a quote	present	this	a wonderful deer			tree rules
7	cry speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	cord			of Lady Jamila	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not see in a quote	past	the kerchief = kerchief	a deer cry		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus

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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