The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 67

His mother it was who saw it plainly through the big tears that were rolling down her cheeks; and though she saw it, and her heart was aching as much as ever mother’s heart ached for a son, she kept dancing, dancing all the time for the bare life of her.

Who acts: mother, big tears, heart · What happens: be, roll down, see, ache, keep, dance · To what, where: big tears, cheeks, matter, much

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, big tears, heart), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	cop
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 tears	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tears	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tears	amod
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 rolling	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rolling	aux
15	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tears	acl:relcl
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 cheeks	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cheeks	nmod:poss
18	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rolling	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 aching	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 aching	cc
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heart	nmod:poss
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 aching	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 aching	aux
30	aching	ache	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 saw	advcl
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 aching	obj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 ached	mark
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 mother	advmod
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heart	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 mother	case
37	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ached	nsubj
38	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 much	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 son	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 son	det
41	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ached	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 kept	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 kept	nsubj
44	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
45	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 kept	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dancing	punct
47	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 dancing	conj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 time	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 time	det
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dancing	obj
51	for	for	ADP	_	54 life	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 life	det
53	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 life	amod
54	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dancing	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 her	case
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 life	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Maurice's mother		the big tears		plainly, see property	tree rules
2	roll down	past · progressive	the big tears	mother's cheeks				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Agent
3	see	past	mother	matter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	ache	past · progressive	mother's heart	much				tree rules
5	ache	past	mother's heart				for a son	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for son=Theme
6	keep	past	heart					tree rules
7	dance	gerund	heart not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	dance	gerund	heart not said here			time	for the bare life of mother	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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