The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 107
The girl wept bitterly for his loss, but in secrecy, as she had told her mistress nothing about her past life.
Who acts: girl · What happens: weep, tell · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 loss | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 loss | nmod:poss |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 secrecy | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 secrecy | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 secrecy | case |
| 11 | secrecy | secrecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wept | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nothing | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | compound |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 told | obj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 life | amod |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the girl | for army's loss; in secrecy; bitterly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in secrecy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | girl | nothing | about girl's past life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient about life=Topic |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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