The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 101
This poor animal had just lost his wife, and was going to get some one to mourn over her, for he felt her loss greatly.
Who acts: one, fox · What happens: lose, go, get, mourn, feel · To what, where: poor animal, one, animal
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, fox), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 lost | advmod |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lost | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 mourn | mark |
| 18 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | xcomp |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mourn | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 felt | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 felt | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 felt | obj |
| 26 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 felt | obj |
| 27 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 24 felt | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect · passive | this poor animal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | some one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mourn | to-infinitive | some one not said here | over animal | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | fox | animal | greatly property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme loss=Eventuality |
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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