The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 113

Now, when the Princess was left alone she began to weep and moan in a way that was pitiful to hear; but when she saw that her tears and groans did her no good, she got up, determined to go wherever fate should lead her.

Who acts: Princess, way, tears, fate · What happens: leave, begin, weep, moan, be, hear · To what, where: Princess, good

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, way, tears, fate), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 began	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 began	advcl
8	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	xcomp
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
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	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 moan	cc
14	moan	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 weep	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moan	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pitiful	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pitiful	cop
20	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pitiful	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 did	mark
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tears	nmod:poss
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 did	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 groans	cc
32	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 tears	conj
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	advcl
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 good	nmod:poss
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 good	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 did	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 got	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 got	nsubj
39	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 got	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 determined	punct
42	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 got	xcomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 go	mark
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 determined	xcomp
45	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	48 lead	advmod
46	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lead	nsubj
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 lead	aux
48	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 go	advcl
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 lead	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		the Princess		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	begin	past	Princess		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	weep	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	moan	infinitive	Princess not said here			in a way	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme
5	is	past	a way			pitiful property	tree rules
6	hear	to-infinitive	a way not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	see	past	Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	groan	present	Princess's tears not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	do	past	Princess's tears	Princess's good			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
10	get up	past	Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	determine	participle	Princess not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	go	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	lead	should	fate	Princess		wherever property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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