The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 26

Weeping bitterly, the old man went to fetch the body of his favourite, and brought it home and buried it under the fig-tree where he had found the treasure.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: weep, go, fetch, bring, bury, find · To what, where: body, fig tree, treasure

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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	Weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
2	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	1 Weeping	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Weeping	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fetch	mark
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 body	det
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 favourite	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 favourite	nmod:poss
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 body	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brought	cc
17	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 brought	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	17 brought	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 buried	cc
21	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 buried	obj
23	under	under	ADP	_	27 tree	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
25	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 fig	punct
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 buried	obl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 found	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 tree	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 treasure	det
33	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	gerund	the old man not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the old man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fetch	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the body of man's favourite			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
4	bring	past	the old man not said here	body		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	bury	past	the old man not said here	body	the fig tree		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under tree=Destination
6	find	past · perfect	man	the treasure			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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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