The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 168

All night long after her talk with the lady Elsa had wept and wailed her hard fate in being cast out from her home which she loved.

Who acts: wife · What happens: weep, wail, cast out, love, talk, fate · To what, where: talk, hard fate, home

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wept	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 talk	advmod
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 talk	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 talk	nmod:poss
6	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wept	nsubj:pass
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 lady	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	nmod
10	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lady	appos
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wept	aux
12	wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wailed	cc
14	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wept	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fate	nmod:poss
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fate	amod
17	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wailed	obj
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 cast	mark
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 cast	aux:pass
20	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wailed	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 cast	compound:prt
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 home	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 home	nmod:poss
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cast	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 loved	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 loved	nsubj
27	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 home	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past · perfect · passive		wife's talk with the lady		night		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	wail	past		wife's hard fate				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fate=Theme
3	cast out	gerund · passive			wife's home			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: from home=Material
4	love	past	wife	wife's home				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
5	talk		wife				with the lady	nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl
6	fate		wife					nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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