The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 66

Then the old man smote his breast, and cried out with a loud lamentation; for he understood that he, who was not content to wait patiently to see the Paradise of the faithful, had been judged already.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: smite, cry out, understand, not be, wait, see · To what, where: breast, Paradise

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. 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, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 smote	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smote	nsubj
5	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 breast	nmod:poss
7	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smote	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smote	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 cried	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 lamentation	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lamentation	det
14	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lamentation	amod
15	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 understood	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 understood	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 understood	nsubj
19	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smote	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 content	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 content	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 content	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 content	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 content	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 content	advmod
26	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 understood	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 wait	mark
28	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 content	xcomp
29	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	28 wait	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wait	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Paradise	det
33	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 faithful	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 faithful	det
36	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Paradise	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 judged	punct
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 judged	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 judged	aux:pass
40	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 understood	parataxis
41	already	already	ADV	_	40 judged	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	smite	past	the old man	man's breast	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus breast=Experiencer
2	cry out speech: express	past	the old man not said here			with a loud lamentation	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lamentation=Theme
3	understand	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is	past	man			content property	tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	man not said here			patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	man not said here	the Paradise of the faithful			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paradise=Stimulus
7	judge	past · perfect · passive					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»

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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