The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 59

Her friends helped her in the search, but, seeing at last that it was of no use, they left her, alone on the bank, weeping bitterly.

Who acts: friends, clothes, search · What happens: help, see, be, leave, weep · To what, where: Maiden, search, last, bank

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, clothes, search), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helped	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 search	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 search	det
7	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 left	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
11	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 left	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seeing	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 use	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 use	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 use	case
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 use	det
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seeing	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	nsubj
22	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 helped	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 alone	punct
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	22 left	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 bank	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bank	det
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 weeping	punct
30	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 left	advcl
31	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	30 weeping	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	past	Maiden's friends		Maiden	the search		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
2	see	gerund	clothes not said here			last		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	search				of no use	tree rules
4	leave	past	clothes	Maiden		the bank	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme on bank=Location
5	weep	gerund	clothes not said here				bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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