The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 33
“Why tears, beloved one?” cried the gnome anxiously; “every tear of yours falls upon my heart like a drop of molten gold.
Who acts: tears, gnome, tear · What happens: belov, cry, fall · To what, where: one, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, gnome, tear), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 beloved | advmod |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beloved | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tears | punct |
| 5 | beloved | belov | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 beloved | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beloved | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gnome | det |
| 11 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 9 cried | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 falls | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 falls | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 tear | det |
| 16 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 falls | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 yours | case |
| 18 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tear | nmod |
| 19 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 falls | obl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 drop | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 drop | det |
| 25 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 falls | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gold | case |
| 27 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gold | amod |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drop | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belov in a quote | past | tears | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the gnome | anxiously property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | present | every tear of yours | my heart | like a drop of molten gold | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon heart=Location |
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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