The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 112

When the great day came, Dotterine could hardly contain herself, and when she had dressed her young mistresses and seen them depart with their mother she flung herself on her bed, and burst into tears.

Who acts: great day, Dotterine, clothes · What happens: come, contain, dress, see, depart, fling · To what, where: Dotterine, young mistresses, bed, tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great day, Dotterine, clothes), 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	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 contain	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
7	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 contain	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 contain	aux
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	10 contain	advmod
10	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 contain	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dressed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dressed	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 dressed	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dressed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dressed	aux
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 contain	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mistresses	nmod:poss
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mistresses	amod
20	mistresses	mistress	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dressed	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seen	cc
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 dressed	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 depart	nsubj
24	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	ccomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 depart	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flung	nsubj
29	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mother	acl:relcl
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 flung	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 bed	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bed	nmod:poss
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flung	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 burst	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 burst	cc
36	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dressed	conj
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 tears	case
38	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 burst	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 contain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the great day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	contain	could	Dotterine	Dotterine		hardly property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme
3	dress	past · perfect	Dotterine	Dotterine's young mistresses			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Patient
4	see	participle	Dotterine not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	depart	present	clothes			with clothes's mother	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fling	past	Dotterine	Dotterine	Dotterine's bed		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on bed=Destination
7	burst	past	Dotterine not said here		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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