The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 61

When the gray women heard that laugh they began to weep, for now they knew that a stranger had robbed them, and that they could not help themselves, and their tears froze as they fell from the hollows where no eyes were, and rattled on the icy ground of the cave.

Who acts: gray women, that, women, tears · What happens: hear, laugh, begin, weep, know, rob · To what, where: stranger, women, hollows, eyes, icy ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gray women, that, women, tears), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 women	det
3	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 women	amod
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 laugh	nsubj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	ccomp
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laugh	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 weep	mark
11	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 knew	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 weep	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 robbed	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stranger	det
19	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 robbed	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 robbed	aux
21	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 knew	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 robbed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 help	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 help	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 help	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 help	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 help	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 help	advmod
29	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	ccomp
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 help	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 froze	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 froze	cc
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tears	nmod:poss
34	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 froze	nsubj
35	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 help	parataxis
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 fell	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 froze	advcl
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 hollows	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hollows	det
41	hollows	hollow	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fell	obl
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 rattled	advmod
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 eyes	det
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 rattled	nsubj:pass
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 rattled	aux
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 rattled	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 rattled	cc
48	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 hollows	acl
49	on	on	ADP	_	52 ground	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ground	det
51	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 ground	amod
52	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 rattled	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 cave	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 cave	det
55	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 ground	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	the gray women				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	laugh	present	that				tree rules
3	begin	past	women = woman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	weep	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	past	women = woman			now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	rob	past · perfect · passive		a stranger			tree rules
7	not help	could	women = woman	women = woman			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
8	freeze	past	women's tears				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	fall	past	women = woman		the hollows		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hollow=Initial_Location
10	rattle	past · passive		no eyes	the icy ground of the cave		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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 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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