The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 67

Then the poor Princess cried bitterly, but it was of no use; her husband did not come back.

Who acts: poor Princess, shell, husband · What happens: cry, be, not come back

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Princess, shell, husband), 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	5 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Princess	amod
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 use	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 use	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 use	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 use	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 use	det
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 come	advmod
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the poor Princess	then	bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	shell		of no use	tree rules
3	not come back	past · do-support	Princess's husband			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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