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title: Then she rent all her needlework asunder and wept aloud, so that eve… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she rent all her needlework asunder and wept aloud, so that everyone in the house heard her. Who acts: Brynhild, everyone. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 130

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Then she rent all her needlework asunder and wept aloud, so that everyone in the house heard her.

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**Who acts:** Brynhild, everyone · **What happens:** rend, weep, hear · **To what, where:** needlework asunder, Brynhild

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brynhild, everyone), 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:pg540:51:130
# text = Then she rent all her needlework asunder and wept aloud, so that everyone in the house heard her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rent	rend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	needlework	needlework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | past | Brynhild | Brynhild's needlework asunder |  |  | then |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient |
| 2 | **weep** | past | Brynhild *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | everyone | Brynhild |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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