Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 17
There they stayed until the youth fell so deeply in love with the beautiful girl, that he grew gradually fainter and at last swooned away.
Who acts: eyes, youth · What happens: stay, fall, grow, swoon away · To what, where: love
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stayed | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 fell | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 deeply | advmod |
| 9 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 love | case |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 grew | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | parataxis |
| 20 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 21 fainter | advmod |
| 21 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 swooned | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 swooned | obl |
| 25 | swooned | swoon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 grew | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 swooned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | eyes = eye | love; there | with the beautiful girl; deeply property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the youth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | youth | faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swoon away | participle | youth not said here | at last; away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at last=Stimulus |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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