The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 37

Weeping, the blind youth felt his way to the giant’s house, and told him all the story.

Who acts: Weeping · What happens: feel, tell · To what, where: way, story, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weeping), 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	Weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Weeping	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 youth	amod
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 giant	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 story	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Weeping	youth's way				to the giant's house	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Weeping not said here	all story	youth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic

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: «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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