The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 7

She was nearly beside herself with grief, and roamed round and round the pond calling on her husband without ceasing.

Who acts: wife · What happens: be, roam, round, call, cease · To what, where: grief, pond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 herself	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 herself	cop
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 herself	advmod
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 herself	case
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 herself	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roamed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 roamed	cc
10	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 grief	acl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 roamed	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 round	cc
13	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 roamed	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pond	det
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 round	obj
16	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 round	xcomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 husband	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calling	obl
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 ceasing	mark
21	ceasing	cease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 calling	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 herself	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	wife		beside wife; with grief; nearly property	tree rules
2	roam	participle		grief not said here	round property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	round	infinitive		the pond		tree rules
4	call	gerund			on wife's husband	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cease	gerund				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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