The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 35

After everything was done he sat himself down in his lonely cottage and wept bitterly, and the bitterest thought of all was that he would never be able to forget that he had eaten his own wife.

Who acts: peasant, bitterest thought · What happens: do, sit down, weep, not be, forget, eat · To what, where: everything, peasant, lonely cottage, own wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, bitterest thought), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 done	mark
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sat	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 sat	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 cottage	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cottage	nmod:poss
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cottage	amod
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wept	cc
14	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	14 wept	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thought	det
19	bitterest	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 thought	amod
20	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 able	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 thought	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 able	cop
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 able	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 able	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sat	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 forget	mark
31	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 eaten	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eaten	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 eaten	aux
35	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 forget	ccomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 wife	amod
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eaten	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	sit down	past	peasant	peasant	peasant's lonely cottage		tree rules
3	weep	past	peasant not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	would · past	the bitterest thought of all			able property	tree rules
5	forget	to-infinitive	the bitterest thought of all not said here				tree rules
6	eat	past · perfect	peasant	peasant's own wife			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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