More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 27

Now her father had never had any other child, and his wife had died; so he was all alone in the world and sate moping and miserable.

Who acts: father, wife · What happens: not have, die, be, sit, mope · To what, where: other child, world

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:1623): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 child	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 died	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 died	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 died	aux
15	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 alone	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 alone	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 alone	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 alone	cop
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 alone	advmod
21	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 alone	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sate	cc
26	sate	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 alone	conj
27	moping	mope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sate	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 miserable	cc
29	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 moping	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	catskin's father	any other child		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	die	past · perfect	father's wife					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	father		the world		all, alone property	tree rules
4	sit	past	father not said here					tree rules
5	mope	gerund	father not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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