The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 64

Then the poor woman began to cry and sob so finely that it would do anyone good to hear her.

Who acts: poor woman, boiling · What happens: begin, cry, sob, do, hear · To what, where: anyone, woman

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman, boiling), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cry	mark
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sob	cc
9	sob	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cry	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 finely	advmod
11	finely	finely	ADV	_	9 sob	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sob	advcl
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 do	obj
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 do	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hear	mark
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 good	csubj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hear	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the poor woman		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the poor woman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sob	infinitive	the poor woman not said here			finely property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	would	boiling	anyone			tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive		woman			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=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 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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