The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 40
Yet it broke his heart to see her weeping from dawn till dark.
Who acts: door, sight · What happens: break, see, weep · To what, where: heart, weeping
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (door, sight), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 broke | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 broke | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weeping | nmod:poss |
| 9 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 dawn | case |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 dark | case |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 see | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | door | Prince's heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | door not said here | sight's weeping | till dark; dawn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | weep | sight | nom weeping «act intransitive»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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