The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 36

The widow wept many tears at parting from her youngest son, but as she saw that his heart was set upon going with his brothers, she did not try to keep him.

Who acts: widow · What happens: weep, see, set, go, not try, keep · To what, where: many tears, parting, heart, Pinkel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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 widow	det
2	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tears	amod
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wept	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 parting	case
7	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 son	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 set	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heart	nmod:poss
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 set	aux:pass
21	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 saw	ccomp
22	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	23 going	mark
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 set	advcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 brothers	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brothers	nmod:poss
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 going	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 try	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 try	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 try	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 try	advmod
31	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saw	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 keep	mark
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 try	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 keep	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the widow	many tears	parting	from widow's youngest son	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
2	see	past	widow				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	set	past · passive		Pinkel's heart			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	go	gerund				with Pinkel's brothers	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary
5	not try	past · do-support	widow				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	widow not said here	Pinkel			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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