The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 27

The brothers wept bitterly for their father, whom they loved, and when they had buried him they began to talk over their future lives.

Who acts: brothers, future · What happens: weep, love, bury, begin, talk, live · To what, where: father, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, future), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	3 wept	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loved	punct
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 loved	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loved	nsubj
11	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 father	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 buried	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 buried	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 buried	aux
17	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 began	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 buried	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 talk	mark
22	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	over	over	SCONJ	_	26 lives	mark
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 future	nmod:poss
25	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lives	nsubj
26	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 talk	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the brothers		for brothers's father; bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	love	past	brothers = brother	brothers's father		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	bury	past · perfect · passive		brothers = brother		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
4	begin	past	brothers = brother			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	talk	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live	present	brothers's future			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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