The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 29

His mother welcomed him back with tears in her eyes, and his poor kinsmen pressed round him, but the rich ones kept away, for they feared that they would no longer be able to rob their kinsman as they had done for many years past.

Who acts: mother, poor kinsmen, kinsmen · What happens: welcome back, press, keep away, fear, be, rob · To what, where: Virgilius, rich ones, kinsman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, poor kinsmen, kinsmen), 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 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 welcomed	nsubj
3	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 welcomed	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 welcomed	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 tears	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 welcomed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tears	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pressed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pressed	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 kinsmen	nmod:poss
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kinsmen	amod
15	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pressed	nsubj
16	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 welcomed	parataxis
17	round	round	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pressed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ones	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 ones	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ones	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ones	amod
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pressed	obl
24	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ones	acl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 kept	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 feared	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 feared	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 feared	nsubj
29	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pressed	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 able	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 able	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 able	aux
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 able	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	cop
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feared	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 rob	mark
38	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	xcomp
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 kinsman	nmod:poss
40	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rob	obj
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 done	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 done	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 done	aux
44	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 rob	advcl
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 years	case
46	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 years	amod
47	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 done	obl
48	past	past	ADV	_	44 done	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 welcomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	welcome back	past	Virgilius's mother	Virgilius		with tears in mother's eyes	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	press	past	Virgilius's poor kinsmen	the rich ones		round Virgilius	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round he=Trajectory
3	keep away	participle		the rich ones not said here		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fear	past	kinsmen = kinsman				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	would	kinsmen = kinsman			able, long property	tree rules
6	rob	to-infinitive	kinsmen = kinsman not said here	kinsmen's kinsman			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kinsman=Source
7	do	past · perfect	kinsmen = kinsman		year	past property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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