The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 111

When the old woman heard those words, she cast her sorrowful eyes all around the horizon, and cried aloud: “Alas, I am undone!

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: hear, cast, cry, undo · To what, where: words, sorrowful eyes, horizon, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree 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 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cast	advcl
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cast	nsubj
10	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
12	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cast	obj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 horizon	advmod
15	around	around	ADP	_	17 horizon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horizon	det
17	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cast	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cast	conj
21	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	20 cried	advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 undone	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 undone	punct
24	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	28 undone	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Alas	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 undone	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 undone	aux:pass
28	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cried	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the old woman	that words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	cast	past	woman	woman's sorrowful eyes	the horizon		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme around horizon=Destination
3	cry speech: express	past	woman not said here			aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	undo in a quote	present · passive		woman			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 111