English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 24

So he wished them good-bye, and started off on his travels, and left them all crying because the girl had lost her sweetheart.

Who acts: gentleman, all · What happens: wish, start off, travel, leave, cry, lose · To what, where: sillies, girl

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, all), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 wished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	obj
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wished	xcomp
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	bye	bye	INTJ	_	5 good	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 started	cc
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 started	compound:prt
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 travels	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 travels	nmod:poss
14	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 started	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 crying	nsubj
20	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 left	xcomp
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 lost	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 left	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sweetheart	nmod:poss
27	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	gentleman	sillies = silly	good property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	start off	past	gentleman not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	travel	present	gentleman not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past	gentleman not said here	sillies = silly		tree rules
5	cry speech: express	gerund	all			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lose	past · perfect · passive		the girl		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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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