The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 62

The woman, seeing them so very pretty, began to weep, and said to them:

Who acts: woman · What happens: see, begin, weep, say · To what, where: brothers · 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 woman	acl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seeing	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 pretty	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 pretty	advmod
8	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 seeing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 weep	mark
12	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the woman not said here	brothers = brother		pretty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	begin	past	the woman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	weep	to-infinitive	the woman not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the woman not said here		brothers = brother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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