The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 118

On her way home the poor old woman shed bitter tears, and when she saw Martin she told him what the King had said, and sobbed out:

Who acts: poor old woman, woman, King · What happens: shed, see, tell, say, sob out · To what, where: bitter tears, way, Martin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old woman, woman, King), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shed	obl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shed	nsubj
9	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tears	amod
11	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	advcl
17	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 said	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 told	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sobbed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sobbed	cc
28	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shed	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 sobbed	compound:prt
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	shed	past	the poor old woman	bitter tears		dame's way	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
2	see	past	woman	Martin			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer martin=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	woman		Martin		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	sob out	participle	the poor old woman not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 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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