The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 37

She was half-drowned in tears, crying out:

What happens: drown, cry out · To what, where: woman, tears

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: 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drowned	aux:pass
3	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 drowned	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 half	punct
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 tears	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drowned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crying	punct
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drowned	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 crying	compound:prt
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 drowned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · passive		woman		tears			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	cry out speech: express	gerund							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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