The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 19

Loudly did they weep and wail, running about the brink of the pool, which looked so shallow and so clear, but which had swallowed up their princess before their eyes.

Who acts: playmates, pool · What happens: weep, wail, run, look, swallow up · To what, where: princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (playmates, pool), 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	Loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 weep	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weep	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weep	nsubj
4	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wail	cc
6	wail	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weep	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct
8	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wail	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 brink	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brink	det
11	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 running	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pool	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pool	det
14	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brink	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pool	acl:relcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 shallow	advmod
19	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 clear	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 clear	advmod
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shallow	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swallowed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 swallowed	cc
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 swallowed	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 swallowed	aux
27	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 weep	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 swallowed	compound:prt
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 princess	nmod:poss
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swallowed	obj
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 swallowed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past · do-support	playmates = playmate			loudly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wail	infinitive	playmates = playmate not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	gerund	playmates = playmate not said here			about the brink of the pool	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about brink=Trajectory
4	look	past	the pool			shallow property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	swallow up	past · perfect · passive		playmates's princess	before playmates's eyes		tree rules

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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