The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 75

In grief for their death I have abandoned my throne, and I abide here in this desert, withholding my hand from all State business and wearing myself away in sorrow.”

Who acts: I, sons · What happens: abandon, abide, withhold, wear away, die · To what, where: throne, grief, desert, hand, State business, myself

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 (I, sons), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 grief	case
2	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abandoned	obl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 death	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 death	nmod:poss
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grief	nmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 abandoned	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 abandoned	aux
8	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 throne	nmod:poss
10	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abandoned	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 abide	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 abide	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 abide	nsubj
14	abide	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 abandoned	conj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 abide	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 desert	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 desert	det
18	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 abide	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 withholding	punct
20	withholding	withhold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 abide	advcl
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 withholding	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 business	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 business	det
25	State	State	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 business	compound
26	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 withholding	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wearing	cc
28	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 withholding	conj
29	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 wearing	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 wearing	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 sorrow	case
32	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wearing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 abandoned	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 abandoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	abandon	present · perfect	I	my throne	grief for sons's death		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme throne=Source
2	abide	present	I		this desert; here		tree rules
3	withhold	gerund	I not said here	my hand	all State business		tree rules
4	wear away	gerund	I not said here	myself	sorrow	away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent myself=Source
5	die		sons = son				nom death «event intransitive»: 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 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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