The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 38

With tears and groans the peasant told him the whole dreadful story, and the hare, filled with anger and compassion, comforted him as best he could, and promised to help him in his revenge.

Who acts: tears, peasant, hare · What happens: groan, tell, fill, comfort, promise, help · To what, where: whole dreadful story, hare, peasant, revenge · 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 (tears, peasant, hare), 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	_	2 tears	case
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 groans	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 tears	cc
4	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 groans	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 story	amod
11	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 story	amod
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 comforted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 comforted	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hare	det
16	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comforted	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 filled	punct
18	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hare	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 anger	case
20	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 compassion	cc
22	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 anger	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hare	punct
24	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 comforted	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 best	advmod
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 comforted	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 best	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 promised	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 promised	cc
32	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 help	mark
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 promised	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 help	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 revenge	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 revenge	nmod:poss
38	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 help	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 groans	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	groan	present	tears					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	the peasant	the whole dreadful story	hare			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	fill	participle		the hare not said here			with anger and compassion	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with anger=Instrument
4	comfort	past	the hare	peasant			best obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	promise speech: promise	past	the peasant not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	the peasant not said here		peasant	peasant's revenge		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
7	revenge		peasant					nom revenge «act 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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