The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 192

They sat down together and she told him all her adventures, and he wept with pity at the tale.

Who acts: trees, Princess, husband · What happens: sit down, tell, weep, adventure · To what, where: adventures, husband, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (trees, Princess, husband), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 adventures	det:predet
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 adventures	nmod:poss
11	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wept	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wept	nsubj
15	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 pity	case
17	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wept	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 tale	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wept	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	trees = tree				down, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Princess	Princess's adventures	husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic
3	weep	past	husband			the tale	with pity	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	adventure		Princess					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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 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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