The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 15

She burst into a flood of bitter tears, partly at her own folly, but more for the loss of her husband, whom she dearly loved.

Who acts: girl, bitter tears · What happens: burst, love, flood · To what, where: flood, loss

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, bitter tears), 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 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 flood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flood	det
5	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burst	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tears	case
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tears	amod
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flood	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 folly	punct
10	partly	partly	ADV	_	14 folly	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 folly	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 folly	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 folly	amod
14	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burst	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 more	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 more	cc
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 burst	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 loss	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 loss	det
20	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 more	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 husband	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 loss	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 loved	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 loved	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 loved	nsubj
27	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	28 loved	advmod
28	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 loss	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	past	girl		a flood of bitter tears	at girl's own folly	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at folly=Location
2	love	past	girl	the loss of girl's husband		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	flood		bitter tears				nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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