The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 13

Neither spoke for some minutes, but stood holding each other’s hands for joy, till at last they both cried out that nothing but death should part them.

Who acts: Neither, hands, nothing · What happens: speak, stand, hold, cry out, part · To what, where: hands, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neither, hands, 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 minutes	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 minutes	det
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spoke	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
9	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stood	xcomp
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hands	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 other	case
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holding	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 joy	case
15	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 cried	mark
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cried	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
21	both	both	ADV	_	22 cried	advmod
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 cried	compound:prt
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 part	mark
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 part	nsubj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 death	cc
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nothing	conj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 part	aux
29	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 part	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Neither			minute		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	Neither not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hold	gerund	Neither not said here	each other's hands			for joy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	past	hands = hand		last		both property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	part	should	nothing	hands = hand				tree rules

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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