The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 130
Then she rent all her needlework asunder and wept aloud, so that everyone in the house heard her.
Who acts: Brynhild, everyone · What happens: rend, weep, hear · To what, where: needlework asunder, Brynhild
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brynhild, everyone), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rent | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rent | nsubj |
| 3 | rent | rend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 asunder | det:predet |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 asunder | nmod:poss |
| 6 | needlework | needlework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asunder | compound |
| 7 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rent | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wept | cc |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rent | conj |
| 10 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 9 wept | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 heard | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 everyone | nmod |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rent | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rend | past | Brynhild | Brynhild's needlework asunder | then | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient | |||
| 2 | weep | past | Brynhild not said here | aloud property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | everyone | Brynhild | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=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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