The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 35

And as Masilo looked, he saw that she was indeed his daughter, and he wept for joy that she was not lying dead in the bottom of the lake.

Who acts: Masilo, woman · What happens: look, see, be, weep, not lie · To what, where: daughter, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 looked	mark
3	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 daughter	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 daughter	cop
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 daughter	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wept	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wept	nsubj
17	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 joy	case
19	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wept	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 lying	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lying	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lying	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 lying	advmod
24	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wept	advcl
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lying	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottom	det
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lying	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 lake	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lake	det
31	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottom	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Masilo				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	Masilo				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	woman	Masilo's daughter		indeed property	tree rules
4	weep	past	Masilo			for joy	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not lie	past · progressive	woman		the bottom of the lake	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bottom=Location

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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