The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 30

When the hermit saw that he held his honour dearer than his wife he lifted his hand and cried, ‘Hold! she is yours, and all the treasures too.

Who acts: hermit, honour, wife · What happens: see, hold, lift, cry, be, honour · To what, where: hand, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, honour, wife), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 held	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 held	nsubj
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 honour	nmod:poss
9	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dearer	nsubj
10	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 held	ccomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifted	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lifted	nsubj
15	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dearer	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifted	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lifted	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Hold	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Hold	punct
22	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	parataxis
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 Hold	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 yours	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 yours	cop
26	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Hold	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 treasures	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 treasures	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 treasures	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 treasures	det
31	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	conj
32	too	too	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the hermit			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hold	past	hermit			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lift	past	honour	hermit's hand	than hermit's wife	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	honour not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold	infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	present	wife	yours		tree rules
7	honour		hermit			nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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 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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