The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 50
She was tired and sad, and knew not where to turn, so she began to weep bitterly.
Who acts: Wind · What happens: be, not know, turn, begin, weep · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wind), 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 | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sad | cc |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tired | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 knew | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 turn | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 turn | mark |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 began | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 weep | mark |
| 18 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 18 weep | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wind | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Wind not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not know | past | Wind not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | turn | to-infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | begin | past | Wind | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | weep | to-infinitive | Wind not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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