The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 43

And then she began to cry, and her nurse, and the nurse’s daughter, and the cradle-rocker, and the nursery-maid, who all loved her dearly, cried too for company, so that nothing could be heard but sobs and sighs.

Who acts: free twenty, nursery maid · What happens: begin, cry, love, hear · To what, where: nurse, free twenty, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (free twenty, nursery maid), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cry	mark
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nurse	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nurse	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nurse	nmod:poss
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 daughter	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 daughter	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nurse	det
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 nurse	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rocker	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rocker	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rocker	det
20	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rocker	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 cradle	punct
22	rocker	rocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 maid	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 maid	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 maid	det
26	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 maid	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 nursery	punct
28	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 loved	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 loved	nsubj
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 loved	advmod
32	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 maid	parataxis
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 loved	obj
34	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	32 loved	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cried	punct
36	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 loved	conj
37	too	too	ADV	_	36 cried	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 company	case
39	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cried	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 heard	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 heard	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 heard	nsubj:pass
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 heard	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 heard	aux:pass
46	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 cried	parataxis
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 sobs	cc
48	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 heard	conj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sighs	cc
50	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sobs	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	free twenty = twenty	free twenty's nurse	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	free twenty = twenty not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	love	past	the nursery maid	free twenty = twenty		all, dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	past	the nursery maid not said here			for company	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for company=Recipient
5	hear	could · passive		nothing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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