The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 29

The old woman struck her hands together: ‘Ah, to think of it! if that were to be, what should I do?’ and she sat down by her daughter, and they both wrung their hands and let their tears flow.

Who acts: old woman, I, woman, hands, tears · What happens: strike, think, do, sit down, wring, let · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, I, woman, hands), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 struck	obj
7	together	together	ADV	_	4 struck	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	13 think	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 struck	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 think	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 be	mark
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 be	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 be	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 think	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 do	obj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 think	ccomp
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 sat	compound:prt
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 daughter	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 daughter	nmod:poss
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wrung	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 wrung	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wrung	nsubj
39	both	both	ADV	_	40 wrung	advmod
40	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hands	nmod:poss
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 wrung	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 let	cc
44	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wrung	ccomp
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 tears	nmod:poss
46	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 flow	nsubj
47	flow	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 let	parataxis
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the old woman	woman's hands	together property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here		of saddle	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	should	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	sit down	past	woman		by woman's daughter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by daughter=Location
5	wring	past	hands = hand	hands's hands	both property	tree rules
6	let	infinitive	hands = hand not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	flow	present	hands's tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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