The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 59

But his fury was vain, the thunderclouds melted away into a soft mist, and the gnome, after flying about for a while in despair, bewailing to the four winds his unhappy fate, went sorrowfully back to the palace, and stole once more through every room, with many sighs and lamentations.

Who acts: fury, thunderclouds, four, head · What happens: be, melt away, fly, bewail, wind, go · To what, where: soft mist, unhappy fate, palace, room

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 (fury, thunderclouds, four, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 vain	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fury	nmod:poss
3	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vain	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vain	cop
5	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 melted	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thunderclouds	det
8	thunderclouds	thundercloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 melted	nsubj
9	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vain	parataxis
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 melted	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 mist	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mist	det
13	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mist	amod
14	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 melted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gnome	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gnome	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gnome	det
18	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mist	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flying	punct
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 flying	mark
21	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 melted	advcl
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 flying	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 while	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 while	det
25	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flying	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 despair	case
27	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 while	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bewailing	punct
29	bewailing	bewail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 flying	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 four	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 four	det
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 winds	nsubj
33	winds	wind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bewailing	ccomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fate	nmod:poss
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fate	amod
36	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 winds	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 melted	conj
39	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	40 back	advmod
40	back	back	ADV	_	38 went	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 palace	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 palace	det
43	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stole	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 stole	cc
46	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vain	parataxis
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	48 more	advmod
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 stole	advmod
49	through	through	ADP	_	51 room	case
50	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	51 room	det
51	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stole	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 sighs	punct
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 sighs	case
54	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 sighs	amod
55	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 stole	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 lamentations	cc
57	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 sighs	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	head's fury				vain property	tree rules
2	melt away	past	the thunderclouds		a soft mist		away property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into mist=Product
3	fly	gerund	the thunderclouds not said here			while	about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bewail	gerund	the thunderclouds not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	wind	present	the four	head's unhappy fate				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fate=Theme
6	go	past	the thunderclouds not said here		the palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
7	steal	past			every room		with many sighs and lamentations	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Location
8	infuriate		head					nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
9	fate		head					nom fate «event 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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