The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 71

She wept and she wailed, but as her brother had said that, she thought she must do it; so she leaped into the sea.

Who acts: mother, brother · What happens: weep, wail, say, think, do, leap · To what, where: haste, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, brother), 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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wailed	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wailed	nsubj
5	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wailed	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 that	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thought	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 leaped	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 leaped	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 leaped	nsubj
24	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaped	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	weep	past	mother			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wail	past	mother			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	mother's brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	mother			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	must	mother	haste		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	leap	past	mother		the sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=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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