The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 96

Suddenly a little old woman appeared before her, holding an apple in her hand, and said, ‘Why do you weep, my Queen, and what makes you so unhappy?’

Who acts: little old woman, you · What happens: appear, hold, say, weep, make · To what, where: apple, hand, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old woman, you), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 appeared	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 appeared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holding	punct
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 appeared	advcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 apple	det
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weep	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 weep	punct
21	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 weep	advmod
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 weep	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 weep	nsubj
24	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Queen	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Queen	nmod:poss
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 weep	vocative
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 makes	cc
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 makes	nsubj
31	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 makes	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 unhappy	advmod
34	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 makes	xcomp
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a little old woman			before Queen	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location
2	hold	gerund	a little old woman not said here	a apple	Queen's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme in hand=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	a little old woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	weep	present · do-support	you				my Queen vocative	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	present		you			unhappy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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