English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 10

She tried and she tried again, but every time it was the same; and at last she sate down and cried as if her heart would break.

Who acts: woman, time, heart · What happens: try, be, sate down, cry, break · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, time, heart), 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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tried	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 tried	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 same	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 same	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 same	nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 same	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 same	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tried	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sate	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sate	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sate	nsubj
20	sate	sate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sate	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 break	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 break	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 break	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 break	aux
29	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cried	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	woman				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	try	past	woman		again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	every time			same property	tree rules
4	sate down	infinitive	woman	last			vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument
5	cry speech: express	past	woman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	break a condition, not said to happen	would	woman's heart				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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