The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 13

At break of day, the old woman ran to see her son, and found, as she knew she would, a bunch of dead flowers in his hand.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: run, see, find, know, break · To what, where: break, son, bunch, day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 break	case
2	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 break	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 break	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ran	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 knew	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	ccomp
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 would	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 knew	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bunch	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bunch	det
25	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knew	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 flowers	case
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bunch	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flowers	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	past	the old woman		break of day	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	woman's son		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
3	find	past	the old woman not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	know	past	woman	a bunch of dead flowers in hand's hand		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	break			day		nom break «event transitive»: of=patient

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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