The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 79

When he saw his brothers’ sorrowful looks he cried, ‘Hallo, what’s the matter now?’

Who acts: ‘ · What happens: see, cry · To what, where: sorrowful looks, Hallo

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘), 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	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brothers	nmod:poss
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looks	nmod:poss
6	’	's	PART	_	5 brothers	case
7	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looks	amod
8	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Hallo	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Hallo	punct
13	Hallo	Hallo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ’s	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 ’s	nsubj
16	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Hallo	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ’s	obj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 ’s	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 Hallo	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	‘	‘'s brothers's sorrowful looks					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	‘	Hallo					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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