The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 118

Then the young man understood how true his brother had been to him, and he sat down and wept and wrung his hands because of the wicked murder that he had done.

Who acts: young man, brother, man · What happens: understand, be, sit down, weep, wring, do · To what, where: hands, wicked murder

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, brother, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 understood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understood	nsubj
5	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 true	advmod
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 understood	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 him	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 him	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 him	cop
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 true	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 understood	parataxis
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wrung	cc
22	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wrung	obj
25	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	29 murder	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 because	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 murder	det
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 murder	amod
29	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wrung	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 done	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 murder	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the young man		then	true property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past · perfect	man's brother			to brother	tree rules
3	sit down	past	man				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weep	past	man not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wring	past	man not said here	man's hands		because the wicked murder	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	do	past · perfect	man	the wicked murder not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Eventuality

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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