The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 62

The king loved the boy very much, but the queen, who was a wicked woman, hated the sight of him; and this was the more unlucky for, when he was twelve years old, his father died, and he was left alone in the world.

Who acts: king, queen, this, father · What happens: love, be, hate, die, leave, sight · To what, where: boy, wicked woman, sight, king, world

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, this, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	3 loved	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hated	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 hated	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hated	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 woman	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 woman	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 queen	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
19	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sight	det
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hated	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sight	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 unlucky	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 unlucky	cc
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 unlucky	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 unlucky	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 unlucky	det
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 unlucky	advmod
30	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loved	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	38 old	case
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 old	punct
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 old	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 old	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 old	cop
36	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 years	nummod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 old	obl:unmarked
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 unlucky	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 died	punct
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 died	nsubj
42	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 unlucky	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 left	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 left	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 left	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 left	aux:pass
47	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 died	conj
48	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 left	xcomp
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 world	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 world	det
51	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 left	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	the king	the boy				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the queen	a wicked woman				tree rules
3	hate	past	the queen	the sight of king				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
4	is	past	this				unlucky property	tree rules
5	is	past	king			year	old property	tree rules
6	die	past	king's father					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	leave	past · passive		king	the world		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in world=Location
8	sight			king				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

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