The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 24

She rang the bell, and in a short time she had her mother and father and married sisters about her, and they laughed till they cried for joy at finding her safe back again.

Who acts: lady, sisters · What happens: ring, have, marry, laugh, cry, find · To what, where: bell, mother, sisters, lady

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, sisters), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rang	nsubj
2	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rang	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 father	cc
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 married	cc
18	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	conj
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 married	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 married	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 laughed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 laughed	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 laughed	nsubj
25	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	conj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 cried	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cried	nsubj
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 laughed	advcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 joy	case
30	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cried	obl
31	at	at	SCONJ	_	32 finding	mark
32	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 cried	advcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 finding	obj
34	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 finding	xcomp
35	back	back	ADV	_	36 again	advmod
36	again	again	ADV	_	32 finding	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	lady	the bell			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
2	have	past	lady	lady's mother and father	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
3	marry	past	lady not said here	sisters		about lady	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
4	laugh	past	sisters = sister				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	past	sisters = sister			for joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient
6	find	gerund	sisters = sister not said here	lady	again	safe property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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