The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 22
And what great weeping and lamentation there was in the palace when the dreadful news was told!
Who acts: great weeping · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: palace, dreadful news · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (great weeping), 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 | _ | 11 palace | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 weeping | advmod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeping | amod |
| 4 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lamentation | cc |
| 6 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weeping | conj |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 weeping | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 palace | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 told | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 news | det |
| 14 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 news | amod |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | aux:pass |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 palace | advcl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | great weeping and lamentation | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the dreadful news | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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