The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 37

‘Just the crickets on the hearth,’ said she, and broke into a song which drowned the cries from the pot.

Who acts: crickets, song · What happens: say, break, drown · To what, where: song, cries, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crickets, song), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	4 crickets	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crickets	det
4	crickets	cricket	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hearth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hearth	det
7	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crickets	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crickets	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 crickets	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 broke	cc
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 song	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 song	det
17	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 drowned	nsubj
19	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 song	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cries	det
21	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 drowned	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 pot	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pot	det
24	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drowned	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the crickets on the hearth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	break	past	the crickets on the hearth not said here			into a song result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into song=Result
3	drown	past	a song	the cries	the pot		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Patient

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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