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title: She burst into tears and answered between her sobs: “Oh, no! they ar… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She burst into tears and answered between her sobs: “Oh, no! they are all very good to me; but I long for news from home, and I pine to see my mother and my sister.” Who acts: maid, sobs. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 25

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She burst into tears and answered between her sobs: “Oh, no! they are all very good to me; but I long for news from home, and I pine to see my mother and my sister.”

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**Who acts:** maid, sobs · **What happens:** burst, answer, be, pine, see, sob · **To what, where:** tears, maid, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, sobs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:36:25
# text = She burst into tears and answered between her sobs: “Oh, no! they are all very good to me; but I long for news from home, and I pine to see my mother and my sister.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sobs	sob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | maid |  |  | tears |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between maid's sobs | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sobs *= sob* |  | maid |  |  | all, good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pine** *in a quote* |  | maid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | maid *not said here* | my mother and my sister |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 6 | **sob** |  | maid |  |  |  |  |  | nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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