The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 78
And they sat till morning weeping over their own fancies.
Who acts: things · What happens: sit, fancy · To what, where: own fancies
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 weeping | case |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weeping | compound |
| 6 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 fancies | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fancies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fancies | amod |
| 10 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | things = thing | things's own fancies | till morning weeping | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fancy=Location | |||
| 2 | fancy | things = thing | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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