The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 77

He could not himself say why he wept, but in spite of his tears he felt quite happy.

Who acts: light · What happens: not say, weep, feel, spite · To what, where: tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wept	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wept	nsubj
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 felt	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 felt	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 spite	case
12	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 felt	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tears	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tears	nmod:poss
15	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spite	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 happy	advmod
19	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could	light			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	weep	past	light			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	light		in spite of light's tears; happy property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in spite=Attribute
4	spite			light's tears		nom spite «feeling 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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