The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 47

If you had heard the noise he made, and how he wrung his hands and wept and cried that he had lost his only companion, you would have been sorry for him.

Who acts: you, boy · What happens: hear, make, wring, weep, cry, lose · To what, where: noise, hands, only companion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 heard	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 sorry	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 noise	det
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 noise	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wept	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 wrung	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wrung	nsubj
13	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wept	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wrung	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wept	cc
17	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wept	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 lost	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lost	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 cried	ccomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 companion	nmod:poss
25	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 companion	amod
26	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 sorry	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 sorry	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 sorry	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 sorry	cop
32	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sorry	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	the noise		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	make	past	boy	the noise not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product
3	wring	past	boy	boy's hands		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	weep	past	you not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	past	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	lose	past · perfect	boy	boy's only companion		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Eventuality
7	is	would · perfect	you		for boy; sorry property	tree rules

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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