The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 60

He passed through the gardens which for him had lost their charm, and the sight of the princess’s footprints on the golden sand of the pathway renewed his grief.

Who acts: four, sight · What happens: pass, lose, renew, sight · To what, where: gardens, four, grief, footprints

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 (four, sight), 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 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 gardens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gardens	det
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 passed	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 lost	mark
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 passed	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 charm	nmod:poss
12	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 renewed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 renewed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sight	det
16	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 renewed	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 footprints	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 footprints	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 princess	case
21	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sight	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 sand	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sand	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sand	amod
25	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 footprints	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 pathway	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pathway	det
28	pathway	pathway	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sand	nmod
29	renewed	renew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grief	nmod:poss
31	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 renewed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pass	past	four		the gardens	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent which=Theme through garden=Destination
2	lose	past · perfect · passive		four		tree rules
3	renew	past	the sight of the princess's footprints on the golden sand of the pathway	four's grief		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grief=Patient
4	sight			the princess's footprints on the golden sand of the pathway		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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