The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 55
At this news Peter began to weep, for he had loved his wife before he went away and had seen the golden-haired maiden.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: begin, weep, love, go away, see · To what, where: news, wife, haired maiden
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 (Peter), 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 | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 weep | mark |
| 7 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loved | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 loved | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loved | aux |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 began | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loved | obj |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loved | advcl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seen | cc |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 haired | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 golden | punct |
| 25 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maiden | amod |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Peter | this news | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love | past · perfect | Peter | Peter's wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go away | past | Peter | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | Peter not said here | the haired maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |
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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