The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 5

She ran weeping to her stepmother, and told her what had happened, but she scolded her harshly, and was so merciless in her anger that she said:

Who acts: widow · What happens: run, weep, tell, happen, scold, be · To what, where: stepmother, widow, anger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (widow), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stepmother	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stepmother	nmod:poss
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weeping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	aux
13	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scolded	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 scolded	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scolded	nsubj
17	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scolded	obj
19	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	17 scolded	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 merciless	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 merciless	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 merciless	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 merciless	advmod
24	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ran	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 anger	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 anger	nmod:poss
27	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 merciless	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 merciless	advcl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	widow					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weep	gerund	widow not said here		widow's stepmother			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stepmother=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	widow not said here		widow			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	scold	past	widow	stepmother			harshly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	is	past				widow's anger	merciless property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	widow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	anger		widow					nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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