The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 134

The mother of the Sun opened the door, and was astonished at beholding a mortal from the distant earthly shores, and wept with pity when she heard of all she had suffered.

Who acts: mother · What happens: open, be, behold, weep, hear, suffer · To what, where: door, mortal, distant earthly shores

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opened	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opened	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 astonished	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 astonished	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 astonished	cop
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 opened	conj
13	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 beholding	mark
14	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 astonished	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mortal	det
16	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beholding	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 shores	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shores	det
19	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shores	amod
20	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shores	amod
21	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 beholding	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wept	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wept	cc
24	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opened	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 pity	case
26	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wept	obl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 heard	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	nsubj
29	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wept	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 heard	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 suffered	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 suffered	aux
34	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 all	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the mother of the Sun	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	is	past	the mother of the Sun not said here			astonished property	tree rules
3	behold	gerund	the mother of the Sun not said here	a mortal	the distant earthly shores		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mortal=Stimulus
4	weep	past	the mother of the Sun not said here			with pity	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	mother			of all	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of all=Stimulus
6	suffer	past · perfect	mother				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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 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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