The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 56
All this time the poor man far away had been mourning and weeping for his gazelle, which he thought had run away from him for ever.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: mourn, weep, run away
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mourning | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mourning | nsubj |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 man | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mourning | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 mourning | aux |
| 11 | mourning | mourn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 weeping | cc |
| 13 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 mourning | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 gazelle | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gazelle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 weeping | ccomp |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 run | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mourning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past · perfect · progressive | the poor man | time | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | the poor man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run away | past · perfect | the poor man not said here | for man's gazelle; from sultan; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory |
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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