Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 39

His heart grew heavy within him as he thought of all this, and he wept bitterly at the harm he had done to himself.

Who acts: heart, Serpent · What happens: grow, think, weep, do · To what, where: harm, Serpent

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Serpent), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	within	within	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 thought	ccomp
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 all	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wept	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wept	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wept	nsubj
16	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
17	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	16 wept	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 harm	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 harm	det
20	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wept	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 harm	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 himself	case
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 done	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Serpent's heart				within Serpent; heavy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Serpent					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	past	Serpent			the harm	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past · perfect	Serpent	the harm not said here	Serpent			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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