The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 28
Weeping and wringing her hands, the girl went down to her mother.
Who acts: girl · What happens: weep, wring, go down · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wringing | cc |
| 3 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Weeping | conj |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wringing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Weeping | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | the girl not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wring | gerund | the girl not said here | wife's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go down | past | the girl | to wife's mother; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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