The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 103

Oh! how the poor little sister sobbed as she carried the water, and how the tears rolled down her cheeks!

Who acts: poor little sister, sister, tears · What happens: sob, carry, roll down · To what, where: water, cheeks

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little sister, sister, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 sobbed	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sobbed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sobbed	nsubj
8	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 carried	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sobbed	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rolled	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 rolled	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tears	det
18	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	nsubj
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 rolled	compound:prt
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cheeks	nmod:poss
22	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 sobbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sob	participle	the poor little sister		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	past	sister	the water	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	roll down	past	the tears	sister's cheeks	vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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