The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 138

So they all sat silent at their work, inwardly cursing the head which was the cause of their misfortunes.

Who acts: veils, head · What happens: sit, curse, be, work · To what, where: work, head, cause

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veils, head), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 work	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 work	nmod:poss
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 inwardly	punct
10	inwardly	inwardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	conj
11	cursing	curse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 inwardly	csubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cursing	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cause	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cause	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cause	det
17	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 misfortunes	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 misfortunes	nmod:poss
20	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cause	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	veils = veil		veils's work	silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at work=Location
2	curse	gerund		the head and the cause			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	is a	past	the head and the cause	the cause		of veils's misfortunes	tree rules
4	work		veils = veil				nom work «act 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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