The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 41
But though he could not rejoice enough over the recovery of his eyes, he bewailed bitterly the loss of his sword, and that it should have fallen to the lot of his bitter enemy.
Who acts: prince, loss, eyes · What happens: not rejoice, bewail, fall, recover · To what, where: recovery, loss
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 (prince, loss, eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bewailed | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 rejoice | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rejoice | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoice | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 rejoice | advmod |
| 6 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bewailed | advcl |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 rejoice | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 recovery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 recovery | det |
| 10 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoice | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 recovery | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoice | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bewailed | nsubj |
| 16 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 16 bewailed | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loss | det |
| 19 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bewailed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sword | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sword | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loss | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fallen | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fallen | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 fallen | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fallen | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fallen | aux |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fallen | aux |
| 29 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 bewailed | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 lot | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lot | det |
| 32 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fallen | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 enemy | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 enemy | amod |
| 36 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lot | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 bewailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rejoice | could | prince | the recovery of prince's eyes | enough property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | bewail | past | prince | the loss of prince's sword | bitterly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | fall | should · perfect | loss | to the lot of prince's bitter enemy | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | recover | prince's eyes | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=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: «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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