The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 9

Therefore he opened all his heart to his sister, who answered: ‘My brother, I understand your longing for our fellow-men, whom here we cannot see.

Who acts: youth, sister, I, we, your · What happens: open, answer, understand, not see, long · To what, where: heart, sister, longing, fellow men

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 (youth, sister, I, we), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 opened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 heart	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 sister	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sister	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 brother	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 brother	punct
15	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 understand	nsubj
19	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	parataxis
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 longing	nmod:poss
21	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 understand	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 men	case
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 men	nmod:poss
24	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 fellow	punct
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 understand	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 see	obj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 whom	advmod
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 men	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	youth	youth's heart	youth's sister	My brother obl; therefore property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient to sister=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	past	youth's sister				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	understand	present	I	your longing		for our fellow men	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer longing=Stimulus
4	not see	can	we	our fellow men			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	long		your				nom longing «feeling 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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