The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 29

Then she told the raven how her thread had lost its brightness, how terribly angry the old woman was, and how she feared some great disaster.

Who acts: thread, old woman · What happens: tell, lose, be, fear · To what, where: raven, thread, great disaster · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, old woman), 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	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lost	advmod
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 thread	nmod:poss
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brightness	nmod:poss
12	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 angry	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 angry	advmod
15	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	16 angry	advmod
16	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lost	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 angry	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 angry	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feared	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feared	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 feared	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feared	nsubj
25	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 disaster	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 disaster	amod
28	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feared	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	thread	the raven	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent raven=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lose	past · perfect · passive		thread's thread			tree rules
3	is	past	the old woman			angry, terribly property	tree rules
4	fear	past	thread	some great disaster			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer disaster=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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