The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 8
‘Heaven and our hearts are weeping together.’
Who acts: Heaven · What happens: weep
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weeping | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hearts | cc |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Heaven | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weeping | aux |
| 7 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 weeping | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present · progressive | Heaven and our hearts | together property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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