The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 33

There was not an animal for miles round that did not grieve over this shocking condition of affairs, not one at least except the puma.

Who acts: animal, that · What happens: be, not grieve, condition · To what, where: shocking condition, affairs

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 animal	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 miles	case
7	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
8	round	round	ADP	_	12 grieve	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 grieve	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grieve	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 grieve	advmod
12	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	advcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 condition	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 condition	det
15	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 condition	amod
16	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grieve	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 affairs	case
18	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 condition	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 affairs	appos
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 least	case
23	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 one	nmod
24	except	except	ADP	_	26 puma	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 puma	det
26	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 least	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a animal		there	for miles	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not grieve	past · do-support	that		this shocking condition of affairs		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	condition			affairs			nom condition «state 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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