The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 99

The old man was nearly beside himself with horror, while his wife sat down and sobbed with grief and disappointment.

Who acts: old man, wife · What happens: be, sit down, sob

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 (old man, wife), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 himself	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 himself	cop
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 himself	advmod
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 sat	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 horror	case
9	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 himself	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 sat	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sobbed	cc
17	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sat	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 grief	case
19	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sobbed	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 disappointment	cc
21	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grief	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man	beside hermit; with horror; nearly property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	hermit's wife		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sob	participle	hermit's wife not said here	with grief and disappointment	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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