The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 28
So, with shame and anguish in his soul, the elder brother went back to his village, and, with his sister, mourned the little boy and the broken promise till the end of his life.
Who acts: shame, sister · What happens: anguish, go back, mourn · To what, where: soul, little boy
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 (shame, sister), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shame | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 shame | case |
| 4 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 anguish | cc |
| 6 | anguish | anguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shame | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 soul | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 soul | nmod:poss |
| 9 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anguish | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shame | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 12 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 village | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 village | nmod:poss |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mourned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mourned | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sister | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 sister | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mourned | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sister | punct |
| 26 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boy | amod |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mourned | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 promise | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 promise | det |
| 32 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 promise | amod |
| 33 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 boy | conj |
| 34 | till | till | ADP | _ | 36 end | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 end | det |
| 36 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mourned | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 life | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 end | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anguish | present | shame not said here | brother's soul | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | shame | to brother's village result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | ||||
| 3 | mourn | past | brother's sister | the little boy and the broken promise | till the end of brother's life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
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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