The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 70

‘Indeed, good mother, I am too sad to care for company,’ she answered; and the tears ran down her cheeks.

Who acts: good mother, Turritella, tears · What happens: be, care, answer, run down · To what, where: cheeks

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (good mother, Turritella, tears), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sad	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sad	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 sad	advmod
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 care	mark
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sad	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 company	case
14	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 care	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ran	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tears	det
22	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	parataxis
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 ran	compound:prt
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cheeks	nmod:poss
26	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ran	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	good mother		sad property	tree rules
2	care	to-infinitive	good mother not said here		for company	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for company=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	Turritella			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run down	past	the tears	Turritella's cheeks		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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 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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