The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 57

Their father burst into the midst of them, bearing his basket, and crying:

Who acts: father · What happens: burst, bear, cry · To what, where: midst, basket

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burst	nsubj
3	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 midst	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 midst	det
6	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burst	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 midst	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bearing	punct
10	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 burst	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 basket	nmod:poss
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bearing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crying	cc
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 burst	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burst	past	children's father		the midst of children	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	gerund	children's father not said here	Father's basket		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
3	cry speech: express	gerund	children's father not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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