The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 26

Then the heart of the elder sunk, and he hastened towards him, crying, ‘Brother, little brother, come to me;’ but he, being half a wolf, only continued his song.

Who acts: heart, brother · What happens: hasten, cry, come, be, continue, sing · To what, where: Brother, me, wolf, song

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (heart, brother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 hastened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heart	det
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hastened	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 sunk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunk	det
6	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sunk	amod
7	sunk	sunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hastened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hastened	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hastened	nsubj
11	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hastened	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hastened	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Brother	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Brother	punct
18	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crying	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brother	punct
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brother	amod
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Brother	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 hastened	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hastened	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 hastened	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 wolf	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wolf	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 he	punct
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 wolf	cop
32	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	34 wolf	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wolf	det
34	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hastened	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 continued	punct
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 continued	advmod
37	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hastened	parataxis
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 song	nmod:poss
39	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 continued	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	the heart of the elder sunk			then	towards brother	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the heart of the elder sunk not said here	Brother and little brother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic
3	come	infinitive	the heart of the elder sunk not said here		me			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	is a	gerund	brother	half wolf				tree rules
5	continue	past		brother's song				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent song=Theme
6	sing		brother					nom song «communication 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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