The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 65

The man’s daughter wept, and was sorely troubled, for Little Snow was the dearest thing she had on earth, but at last she threw him overboard.

Who acts: daughter, Little Snow · What happens: weep, be, have, throw · To what, where: dearest thing, earth, man, last

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Little Snow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wept	nsubj
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 troubled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 troubled	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 troubled	cop
9	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	10 troubled	advmod
10	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wept	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	18 thing	case
13	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Snow	amod
14	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 thing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 troubled	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	acl:relcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 earth	case
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 threw	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 threw	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 threw	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 threw	nsubj
28	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 threw	obj
30	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	28 threw	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the man's daughter				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				sorely, troubled property	tree rules
3	is	past	Little Snow			for the dearest thing	tree rules
4	have	past	daughter	the dearest thing not said here	earth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	throw	past	daughter	man	last	overboard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Destination

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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