The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 3

Bitter were the tears she shed, while her husband sought in vain to soothe her with words of comfort and counsel, warning her, above all things, never to leave the castle, to hold no intercourse with strangers, to beware of evil counsellors, and especially to be on her guard against strange women.

Who acts: Bitter tears, husband · What happens: be, shed, seek, soothe, warn, not leave · To what, where: Bitter tears, vain, honeymoon, castle, intercourse, guard

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bitter tears, husband), 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	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tears	compound
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tears	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tears	det
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shed	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shed	nsubj
6	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sought	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 sought	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sought	nsubj
11	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shed	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 vain	case
13	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sought	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 soothe	mark
15	soothe	soothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sought	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 soothe	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 words	case
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 soothe	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 comfort	case
20	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 words	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 counsel	cc
22	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comfort	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 warning	punct
24	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 soothe	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 warning	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 things	punct
27	above	above	ADP	_	29 things	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 things	det
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sought	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 leave	punct
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 leave	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 leave	mark
33	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 things	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 castle	det
35	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leave	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hold	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	38 hold	mark
38	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 leave	parataxis
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 intercourse	det
40	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hold	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 strangers	case
42	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hold	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 beware	punct
44	to	to	PART	_	45 beware	mark
45	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 hold	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 counsellors	case
47	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 counsellors	amod
48	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 beware	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 guard	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 guard	cc
51	especially	especially	ADV	_	56 guard	advmod
52	to	to	PART	_	56 guard	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 guard	cop
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 guard	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 guard	nmod:poss
56	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shed	obl
57	against	against	ADP	_	59 women	case
58	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 women	amod
59	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 guard	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Bitter tears				tree rules
2	shed	past	the Bitter tears					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	seek	past	honeymoon's husband			vain		tree rules
4	soothe not said to happen	to-infinitive	honeymoon's husband not said here	honeymoon			with words of comfort and counsel	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	warn speech: warn	gerund	honeymoon's husband not said here		honeymoon			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	not leave	to-infinitive		the castle				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
7	hold	to-infinitive		no intercourse			with strangers	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intercourse=Theme
8	beware	to-infinitive					of evil counsellors	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	to-infinitive				honeymoon's guard	against strange women; especially property	tree rules
10	word			comfort and counsel				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/3/