English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 11

“Dear, dear! what a dreadful thing it would be!” said the mother, and she sat her down aside of the daughter and started a-crying too.

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, sit down, start, cry · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	4 dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dear	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 be	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 thing	acl:relcl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
24	aside	aside	ADV	_	21 sat	advmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 daughter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 daughter	det
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 started	cc
29	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sat	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crying	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 a	punct
32	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 started	xcomp
33	too	too	ADV	_	32 crying	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past	mother	daughter	of the daughter; aside property	tree rules
3	start	past	mother not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	gerund	mother not said here			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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