The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 82

When the poor girl heard this she wept bitterly, and cried out, ‘Come to me, my sisters, for I need you badly!’

Who acts: poor girl, girl, I · What happens: hear, weep, cry out, come, need · To what, where: this, me, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, girl, I), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wept	advcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wept	nsubj
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	8 wept	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wept	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 cried	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct
16	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sisters	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sisters	nmod:poss
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 me	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 need	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 need	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 need	nsubj
25	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Come	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 need	obj
27	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 need	advmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the poor girl	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	weep	past	girl			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry out speech: express	past	girl not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	infinitive	girl not said here		me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
5	need	present	I	you		badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=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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