The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 67
He thanked the old woman with tears of gladness for the good news she had given him, and continued his journey.
Who acts: castle, woman · What happens: thank, give, continue, journey · To what, where: old woman, good news, castle, journey
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 woman | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gladness | case |
| 9 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tears | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 news | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 news | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 news | amod |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gladness | nmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 news | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 continued | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 continued | cc |
| 20 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 continued | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | castle | the old woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | woman | the good news not said here | castle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | continue | past | castle's journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||||
| 4 | journey | castle | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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