The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 27
He called after her, he wept and lamented, but all in vain.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: call, weep, lament · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wept | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wept | nsubj |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lamented | cc |
| 9 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wept | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vain | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 vain | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 vain | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 vain | case |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 called | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Joringel | after woman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Joringel | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lament | participle | Joringel not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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