The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 6
His wife and daughter wept bitterly for his loss, and it was many months before they could take pleasure in anything.
Who acts: wife, loss, man · What happens: weep, be, take · To what, where: many months, pleasure, anything
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, loss, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 daughter | cc |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 5 wept | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 loss | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 loss | nmod:poss |
| 9 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wept | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 months | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 months | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 months | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 months | cop |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 months | amod |
| 15 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wept | obl |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | aux |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wept | advcl |
| 20 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 anything | case |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | couple's wife and daughter | for couple's loss; bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | loss | many months | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | could | man | pleasure | anything | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in anything=Location |
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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