The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 93
And when the wife heard that she knew that Kilweh was her nephew, and her heart yearned after him, half with joy at the thought of seeing him, and half with sorrow for the doom she feared.
Who acts: wife, Kilweh, heart, thought · What happens: hear, know, be, yearn, see, fear · To what, where: nephew, half, Kilweh, doom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Kilweh, heart, thought), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 nephew | mark |
| 10 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 nephew | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nephew | cop |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yearned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 yearned | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yearned | nsubj |
| 18 | yearned | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 yearned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 half | punct |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 yearned | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 half | nmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 thought | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thought | det |
| 27 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 half | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 seeing | mark |
| 29 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 thought | acl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seeing | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 half | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 half | cc |
| 33 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 heard | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sorrow | case |
| 35 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 half | nmod |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 doom | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 doom | det |
| 38 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 half | nmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 feared | nsubj |
| 40 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 doom | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the wife | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Kilweh | wife's nephew | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | yearn | past | wife's heart | half with joy at the thought | after Kilweh | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot after he=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | gerund | the thought not said here | Kilweh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | fear | past | heart | the doom not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doom=Stimulus |
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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