The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 75
Then she cried out to her brothers that something terrible had come to pass.
Who acts: sister, something · What happens: cry out, come, pass · To what, where: brothers
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, something), 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 cried | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cried | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brothers | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cried | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 cried | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pass | mark |
| 14 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | sister | sister's brothers | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | something | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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