The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 64
“Now, when my son heard this tale, he fell in love with that unseen girl, and he came to me lamenting and bewailing himself.
Who acts: son, Rose · What happens: hear, fall, come, lament, bewail · To what, where: tale, love, daughter, Rose
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Rose), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 heard | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tale | det |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 love | case |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 came | obl |
| 25 | lamenting | lament | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 came | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bewailing | cc |
| 27 | bewailing | bewail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 lamenting | conj |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 bewailing | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | my son | this tale | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | Rose | love | with that unseen girl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | Rose | daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | lament in a quote | gerund | Rose not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | bewail in a quote | gerund | Rose not said here | Rose | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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