The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 21
The shepherd was brimming over with joy, but the princess only wept bitterly.
Who acts: shepherd, princess · What happens: brim over, weep
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brimming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brimming | aux |
| 4 | brimming | brim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 brimming | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brimming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 wept | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wept | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 wept | advmod |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brimming | conj |
| 14 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 13 wept | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brimming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brim over | past · progressive | the shepherd | with joy; over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the princess | 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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