The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 103

The cries of grief uttered by Martin and Michael sounded through the house, but Jack remained by the bedside of his father, still and silent, as if he were dead also.

Who acts: cries, Jack, grief · What happens: utter, sound, remain, be, cry · To what, where: grief, house

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, Jack, grief), 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 cries	det
2	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sounded	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 grief	case
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cries	nmod
5	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grief	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Martin	case
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 uttered	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Michael	cc
9	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Martin	conj
10	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sounded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remained	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 remained	cc
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 remained	nsubj
17	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sounded	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 bedside	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bedside	det
20	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remained	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 father	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bedside	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 still	punct
25	still	still	ADV	_	17 remained	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 silent	cc
27	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 still	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dead	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 dead	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 dead	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dead	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dead	cop
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 remained	conj
34	also	also	ADV	_	33 dead	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	participle		grief not said here			by Martin and Michael	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	sound	past	the cries of grief		the house			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Location
3	remain	participle	Jack			still	by the bedside of Jack's father	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bedside=Location
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Jack				dead property	tree rules
5	cry		grief					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 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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