The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 39

She spoke this so very loud that the children, who were at the gate, began to cry out all together:

Who acts: woman, children · What happens: speak, be, begin, cry out · To what, where: this, gate · 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 (woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 spoke	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 began	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 began	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gate	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 gate	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gate	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 children	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 children	punct
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loud	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cry	mark
19	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 cry	compound:prt
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 together	advmod
22	together	together	ADV	_	19 cry	advmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	woman	this		loud property	tree rules
2	is	past	the children		the gate		tree rules
3	begin	past	the children				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	the children not said here			together 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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