The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 5

One day, when he was in the wood gathering sticks and crying bitterly, a little old woman came up to him and asked him what was the matter; and he told her all his troubles.

Who acts: creature, wood, little old woman · What happens: be, gather, cry, come up, ask, tell · To what, where: wood, sticks, creature, matter, troubles, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, wood, little old 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wood	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 wood	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wood	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wood	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
10	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wood	acl
11	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gathering	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crying	cc
13	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gathering	conj
14	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	13 crying	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 asked	cc
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	iobj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 matter	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 matter	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 matter	det
30	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asked	ccomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 troubles	det:predet
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 troubles	nmod:poss
38	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 told	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	creature			the wood			tree rules
2	gather	gerund	the wood not said here	sticks					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the wood not said here					bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come up	past	a little old woman		creature		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	a little old woman not said here		creature				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is a	past		the matter					tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past	creature	creature's troubles	woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient trouble=Topic
8	trouble		creature						nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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