The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 21
Discontent once more filled his soul, and when a cloud covered his face, and hid the earth from him, he cried in his anger: “Does the cloud hold captive my rays, and is it mightier than I?
Who acts: Discontent, cloud, sun, my · What happens: fill, cover, hide, cry, do, hold · To what, where: soul, face, earth, anger, cloud, captive rays · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Discontent, cloud, sun, my), 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 | Discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 filled | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 filled | advmod |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 soul | nmod:poss |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 covered | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 covered | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cloud | det |
| 11 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | nsubj |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hid | cc |
| 17 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hid | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hid | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 anger | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 anger | nmod:poss |
| 27 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 Does | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Does | punct |
| 30 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cried | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cloud | det |
| 32 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Does | obj |
| 33 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 30 Does | conj |
| 34 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rays | amod |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 rays | nmod:poss |
| 36 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hold | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 mightier | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 mightier | cc |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 mightier | cop |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 mightier | nsubj |
| 41 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 cried | conj |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 I | case |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 mightier | obl |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Discontent | sun's soul | once property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | |||
| 2 | cover | past | a cloud | sun's face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Discontent not said here | the earth | from sun | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent earth=Patient from he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | sun | sun's anger | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | sun not said here | the cloud | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | hold in a quote | present | sun not said here | my captive rays | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | Discontent | than sun; mighty property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | anger | sun | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | ray in a quote | my | nom ray «phenomenon 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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