--- title: Discontent once more filled his soul, and when a cloud covered his f… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Discontent once more filled his soul, and when a cloud covered his face, and hid the earth from him, he cried in his anger: “Does the cloud hold captive my rays, and is it mightier than I? Who acts: Discontent, cloud, sun, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Discontent, cloud, sun, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:20:21 # text = Discontent once more filled his soul, and when a cloud covered his face, and hid the earth from him, he cried in his anger: “Does the cloud hold captive my rays, and is it mightier than I? 1 Discontent discontent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 advmod _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 captive captive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 mightier mighty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 conj _ _ 42 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past | Discontent | sun's soul | | | | once *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | | 2 | **cover** | past | a cloud | sun's face | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination | | 3 | **hide** | past | Discontent *not said here* | the earth | | | | from sun | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent earth=Patient from he=Beneficiary | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sun | | | sun's anger | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present | sun *not said here* | the cloud | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Eventuality | | 6 | **hold** *in a quote* | present | sun *not said here* | my captive rays | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Discontent | | | | | than sun; mighty *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **anger** | | sun | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **ray** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/22/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/)