English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 40

She sat down on a stool in the kitchen, and law! how she did cry!

Who acts: Darter · What happens: sit down, cry · To what, where: stool

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darter), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 stool	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stool	det
6	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 law	cc
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cry	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cry	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cry	aux
17	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Darter			a stool		in the kitchen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
2	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Darter						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: «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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