The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 13

The mermaid looked in vain for him, and coated all night upon the sea; but he never came back, and never more did he gladden her eyes.

Who acts: mermaid, water · What happens: look, coat, not come back, gladden · To what, where: vain, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mermaid, water), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mermaid	det
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 vain	case
5	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 coated	cc
10	coated	coat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coated	obl:unmarked
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coated	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gladden	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gladden	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 gladden	advcl
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gladden	aux
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gladden	nsubj
28	gladden	gladden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 came	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gladden	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the mermaid		vain		for water	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for he=Theme
2	coat	past	the mermaid not said here			night	upon the sea	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	not come back	past	water					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gladden	past · do-support	water	mermaid's eyes				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer

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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