The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 84

He said good-bye to his young wife, who cried bitterly at parting, hung a bag of biscuits over his shoulders, and set out.

Who acts: Mark · What happens: say, cry, hang, set out · To what, where: good bye, young wife, parting, bag, shoulders · 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 (Mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:298): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bye	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bye	punct
5	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wife	amod
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bitterly	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bitterly	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wife	acl:relcl
13	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	12 cried	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 parting	case
15	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
17	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bag	det
19	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 biscuits	case
21	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bag	nmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 shoulders	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoulders	nmod:poss
24	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 set	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 set	cc
27	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 set	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mark	good bye	Mark's young wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to wife=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	past				parting	bitterly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at parting=Location
3	hang	past	Mark not said here	a bag of biscuits		Mark's shoulders		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme over shoulder=Destination
4	set out	past	Mark not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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