The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 44

Even in his joy at seeing his mother again an air of sadness clung to him, and at last the queen could bear it no longer, and begged him to walk with her in the garden.

Who acts: joy, son · What happens: see, cling, bear, beg, walk, joy · To what, where: mother, sadness, son, joy, garden

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, son), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 joy	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 joy	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 joy	nmod:poss
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bear	nsubj
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 seeing	mark
6	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 joy	acl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seeing	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 seeing	advmod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seeing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sadness	case
13	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 air	nmod
14	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sadness	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 clung	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 last	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 last	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 joy	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 queen	det
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 last	obl:unmarked
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bear	aux
24	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bear	obj
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 bear	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 begged	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 begged	cc
30	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bear	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 begged	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 walk	mark
33	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 begged	xcomp
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 walk	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 garden	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 garden	det
38	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 walk	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	son's joy not said here	son's mother			again	a air of sadness obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
2	cling	participle		sadness not said here	son				vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme
3	bear	could	son's joy	sadness				long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	beg speech: request	past	son's joy not said here		joy				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	son's joy not said here			the garden		with Fish	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory
6	joy		son						nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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