The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 31

Then they arose and went into the town and told his mother as they had agreed, and she wept much and made her mourning for many months.

Who acts: arms, mother · What happens: arise, go, tell, agree, weep, make · To what, where: town, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, mother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 arose	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arose	nsubj
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 agreed	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 agreed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 agreed	aux
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wept	nsubj
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	conj
21	much	much	ADV	_	20 wept	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wept	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	mourning	mourn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 made	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 months	case
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 months	amod
28	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mourning	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	arise	past	arms = arm				then	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	arms = arm not said here			the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	arms = arm not said here		boy's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	agree speech: agree	past · perfect	arms = arm					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	past	mother					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	mother not said here	mother				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
7	mourn	gerund	mother not said here				month	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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