The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 53
At length he gave it up in despair, and throwing himself down at the foot of the tree, he wept bitterly.
Who acts: prince · What happens: give up, throw down, weep · To what, where: length, prince, foot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 despair | case |
| 8 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 throwing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 throwing | cc |
| 11 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 throwing | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 throwing | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foot | det |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throwing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wept | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wept | nsubj |
| 22 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 23 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 22 wept | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | prince | length | length | in despair | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||
| 2 | throw down | gerund | prince not said here | prince | the foot of the tree | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | weep | past | prince | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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: «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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