The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 40

Then the shepherdess thought of that evening when she had sat at the full moon by the mill-pond and had played on the golden flute; the recollection was too much for her, and she burst into tears.

Who acts: shepherdess, wife, recollection · What happens: think, sit, play, be, burst · To what, where: full moon, golden flute, tears

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (shepherdess, wife, recollection), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherdess	det
3	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 evening	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sat	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	aux
11	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 moon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moon	det
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 moon	amod
15	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	20 pond	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pond	det
18	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pond	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 mill	punct
20	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 played	cc
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 played	aux
23	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sat	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 flute	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flute	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 flute	amod
27	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 played	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 much	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 recollection	det
30	recollection	recollection	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 much	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 much	cop
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 much	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 burst	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 burst	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 burst	nsubj
39	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	41 tears	case
41	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 burst	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the shepherdess		then; evening		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past · perfect	wife	the full moon		by the mill pond	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at moon=Location
3	play	past · perfect	wife not said here	the golden flute			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the recollection			for wife; much property	tree rules
5	burst	past	wife	tears			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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