The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 185

Delighted at this discovery, he was about to hasten to the village when he heard a woman’s voice weeping and lamenting, and calling on the men to take pity on her and help her.

Who acts: sun, calling, woman · What happens: be, hasten, hear, lament, call, take · To what, where: village, voice weeping, pity, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, calling, woman), 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	Delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 discovery	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 discovery	det
4	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Delighted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 about	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 about	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Delighted	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hasten	mark
10	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hasten	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 heard	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hasten	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weeping	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 woman	case
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weeping	compound
21	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lamenting	cc
23	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 weeping	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 take	cc
26	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 take	csubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 men	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 men	det
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 calling	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Delighted	advcl
32	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 take	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 help	cc
36	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 take	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 help	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun				about property	tree rules
2	hasten	to-infinitive	sun not said here			the village		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination
3	hear	past	sun	a woman's voice weeping				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus
4	lament	gerund	sun not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	call	gerund					on the men	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	to-infinitive	calling	pity			on woman	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on she=Destination
7	help	infinitive	calling not said here		woman			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
8	weep		a woman					nom weeping «act intransitive»: 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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