The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 95

The beautiful Hyacinthia cried bitterly when she heard this; then she dried her tears, and went into the town dressed as a peasant woman.

Who acts: beautiful Hyacinthia, passer · What happens: cry, hear, dry, go, dress · To what, where: this, tears, town

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 (beautiful Hyacinthia, passer), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hyacinthia	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Hyacinthia	amod
3	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	4 cried	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	advcl
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 heard	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 dried	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 dried	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dried	nsubj
13	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tears	nmod:poss
15	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dried	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 town	acl
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 woman	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the beautiful Hyacinthia				bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	passer	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	dry	past	passer	passer's tears		then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result
4	go	past			the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
5	dress	participle		the town not said here			as a peasant woman	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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