The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 39

When she came out of the fainting fit into which she had fallen in her terror, her sisters tried to comfort her, saying:

Who acts: pig, sisters · What happens: come out, fit, fall, try, comfort, say · To what, where: terror, pig · 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 (pig, sisters), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tried	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	8 fit	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fainting	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fainting	det
7	fainting	fainting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fit	obl
8	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fit	advcl:relcl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fallen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fallen	aux
13	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 fit	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 terror	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 terror	nmod:poss
16	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fallen	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sisters	nmod:poss
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tried	nsubj
20	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 comfort	mark
22	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tried	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 comfort	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 comfort	advcl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	pig				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	fit	present	pig not said here			of the fainting	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent of fainting=Trajectory
3	fall	past · perfect	pig		pig's terror		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in terror=Location
4	try	past	pig's sisters				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	comfort not said to happen	to-infinitive	pig's sisters not said here	pig			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	gerund	pig's sisters not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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