The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 20

When the children saw they were left alone, they began to cry as loud as they could.

Who acts: children · What happens: see, leave, begin, cry · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
8	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cry	mark
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 loud	advmod
15	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cry	xcomp
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 could	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 could	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 loud	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the children			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	leave	past · passive		children = child	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	begin	past	children = child			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	children = child not said here		loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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