The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 27
From morning till night he and his wife mourned over their loss, and nothing could comfort them.
Who acts: man, nothing · What happens: mourn, comfort · To what, where: loss, neighbour
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 (man, nothing), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 morning | case |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mourned | obl |
| 3 | till | till | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mourned | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wife | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | conj |
| 9 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 loss | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 loss | nmod:poss |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mourned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 comfort | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 comfort | cc |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 comfort | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 comfort | aux |
| 17 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mourned | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 comfort | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | man | neighbour's loss | morning | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | comfort | could | nothing | neighbour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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