The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 47
With that the king let them go, and there was great grief among them; some wept and others lamented.
Who acts: you, heads, great grief, some · What happens: let, go, be, weep, lament · To what, where: heads, others
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heads, great grief, some), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 With | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obl |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | advcl |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grief | amod |
| 13 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 was | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wept | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 wept | nsubj |
| 18 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 others | cc |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wept | conj |
| 21 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 others | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | heads = head | with the king | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | heads = head not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | great grief | there | among heads = head | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location | |||
| 4 | weep | past | some | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lament | participle | others not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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 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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