The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 29
A huge black cloud passed over his head, but in vain did he beg and beseech her to let a drop of water fall on him.
Who acts: youth · What happens: pass, beg, beseech, let, fall · To what, where: huge black cloud, head, vain, mouth, drop
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cloud | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloud | amod |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloud | amod |
| 4 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cloud | acl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beg | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 beg | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 vain | case |
| 12 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beg | obl |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 beg | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 beg | nsubj |
| 15 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cloud | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beseech | cc |
| 17 | beseech | beseech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beg | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beseech | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beseech | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 drop | det |
| 22 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | obl |
| 25 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 drop | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fall | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a huge black cloud not said here | youth's head | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over head=Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past · do-support | youth | vain | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | beseech | infinitive | youth not said here | mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | youth not said here | a drop | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | present | of water; on youth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
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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