Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 81
She wept sore, for her three little children cried for bread, and she could work no longer.
Who acts: Many, three little children, child · What happens: weep, cry, work
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, three little children, child), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wept | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 cried | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 children | nummod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 bread | case |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 work | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 work | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 work | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 work | aux |
| 17 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wept | conj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 work | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Many | sore property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Many's three little children | for bread | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for bread=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | work | could | child | long property | vn employment-95.3 «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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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