The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 117

She bowed her head in her hands and cried, ‘Is there no one under heaven who will take pity on me?’

Who acts: HELENA, one · What happens: bow, cry, be, take · To what, where: head, hands, pity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HELENA, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bowed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Is	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Is	punct
12	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	ccomp
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 Is	expl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Is	nsubj
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 heaven	case
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 take	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 one	acl:relcl
21	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 bowed	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bow	past	HELENA	HELENA's head	HELENA's hands		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	HELENA not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	no one under heaven		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	future	no one under heaven	pity		on me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on i=Destination

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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