More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 13

So there he still sits by his window, if you could only see him, as you some day may, weeping more bitterly than ever, as he looks out over the sea.

Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: sit, see, weep, look out · To what, where: Prince, sea

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 sits	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 sits	expl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sits	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 sits	advmod
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 window	nmod:poss
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sits	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weeping	punct
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 weeping	obl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 weeping	obl:unmarked
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 weeping	aux
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weeping	punct
23	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 see	advcl
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 bitterly	advmod
25	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	23 weeping	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 ever	case
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 bitterly	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looks	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 looks	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looks	nsubj
31	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 weeping	parataxis
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 looks	advmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 sea	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looks	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Prince		there	still	by Prince's window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	see a condition, not said to happen	could	you	Prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	weep	may	you not said here			day	as you; bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look out	present	Prince		the sea		out property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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