The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 31

Sister cried bitterly over her poor bewitched brother, and the little Roe wept too, and sat sadly by her side.

Who acts: Sister, little Roe · What happens: cry, bewitch, weep, sit

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, little Roe), 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	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	2 cried	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	8 brother	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brother	amod
7	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wept	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Roe	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Roe	amod
13	Roe	Roe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wept	nsubj
14	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	14 wept	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	parataxis
19	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	18 sat	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 side	nmod:poss
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Sister	over sister's poor bewitched brother; bitterly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over brother=Location
2	bewitch	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	weep	past	the little Roe		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past		by roe's side; sadly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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