The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 188
At the sight of her, looking so changed by all that she had suffered for his sake, his heart was moved by such love and longing and by so great a pity that he suddenly became a man.
Who acts: woman, such love, husband · What happens: look, change, suffer, move, become, sight · To what, where: heart, man, woman
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 (woman, such love, husband), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sight | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 changed | advmod |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 looking | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 suffered | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 suffered | det:predet |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 suffered | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 suffered | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffered | aux |
| 15 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 changed | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sake | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sake | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suffered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moved | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 moved | aux:pass |
| 23 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 looking | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 love | amod |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 longing | cc |
| 28 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 love | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pity | cc |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 great | case |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 great | advmod |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 pity | amod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 pity | det |
| 34 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 love | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 became | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 became | nsubj |
| 37 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 38 became | advmod |
| 38 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 pity | acl:relcl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 became | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | at the sight of woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | suffer | past · perfect | woman | for husband's sake | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | move | past · passive | such love and longing and a great pity | husband's heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | past | husband | a man | suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient pity=Result | |||
| 6 | sight | woman | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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