The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 115

“Soon after midday Abu Nowas came into the hall, his eyes streaming with tears, and when I asked him the reason he answered that his wife was dead, and they had sold everything they had, and he had nothing left, not so much as would buy her a shroud, far less for her burial.”

Who acts: Abu, eyes, wife, tears · What happens: come, stream, ask, answer, be, sell · To what, where: eyes, hall, reason, Abu, tears, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu, eyes, wife, tears), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
2	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 midday	case
4	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Soon	obl
5	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
6	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Abu	flat
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eyes	punct
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	7 came	obl
14	streaming	stream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 eyes	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 tears	case
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 streaming	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 asked	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reason	det
24	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answered	nsubj
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reason	acl:relcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 dead	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dead	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dead	cop
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 answered	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sold	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sold	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sold	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sold	aux
36	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 asked	parataxis
37	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 sold	obj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 everything	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 had	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
44	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	43 had	obj
45	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 nothing	acl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 much	punct
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 much	advmod
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 much	advmod
49	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 had	conj
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 buy	mark
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 buy	aux
52	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 much	advcl
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 buy	iobj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 shroud	det
55	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 buy	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 less	punct
57	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 less	advmod
58	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	55 shroud	amod
59	for	for	ADP	_	61 burial	case
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 burial	nmod:poss
61	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 less	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Abu	Abu's eyes		the hall	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
2	stream in a quote	gerund	Abu's eyes not said here				with tears	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tear=Theme
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	Abu	the reason	Abu			tree rules
4	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	Abu	the reason not said here				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent reason=Eventuality
5	is in a quote	past	Abu's wife				dead property	tree rules
6	sell in a quote	past · perfect · passive		tears = tear				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient everything=Theme
7	have in a quote	past	tears = tear					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	have in a quote	past	Abu	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	leave in a quote	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	buy in a quote	would	Abu not said here	a shroud	wife			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary shroud=Theme
11	bury in a quote		wife					nom burial «event 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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