The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 56
She wept and lamented, but all in vain, for go he must.
Who acts: mother · What happens: weep, lament
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lamented | cc |
| 4 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wept | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 vain | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 vain | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 vain | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wept | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 go | case |
| 12 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vain | appos |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 must | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | mother | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lament | participle | mother not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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