The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 15
At that she began to cry again, and told the king’s son all that had befallen her since the death of her mother.
Who acts: woman, that, mother · What happens: begin, cry, tell, befall, die · To what, where: that, son, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, that, mother), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 began | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cry | mark |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 cry | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 befallen | det:predet |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 befallen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 befallen | aux |
| 18 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 befallen | obj |
| 20 | since | since | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 death | det |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 befallen | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mother | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 death | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | woman | that | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | woman not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | woman not said here | the king's son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | befall | past · perfect | that | woman | since the death of woman's mother | tree rules | |||
| 5 | die | woman's mother | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 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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