The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 1

When the young man saw the maiden weeping bitterly he said to her, ‘What is the matter, my poor girl?’

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: maiden weeping, her, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weeping	det
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weeping	amod
8	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	5 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 matter	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 matter	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 matter	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 matter	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 matter	det
19	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 girl	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 girl	nmod:poss
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girl	amod
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 matter	appos
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 girl	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the young man	the maiden weeping		bitterly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	man		her = she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	is a	present		the matter			tree rules

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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