The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 79

His wife was dead, and he had only one son, whom he loved dearly.

Who acts: wife, man · What happens: be, son, love · To what, where: one son

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 son	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 son	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 son	aux
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 son	nummod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loved	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 loved	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loved	nsubj
15	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 son	acl:relcl
16	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	15 loved	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's wife		dead property	tree rules
2	son	past	man			tree rules
3	love	past	man	one son	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=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: «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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