The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 25

Now the king had never ceased to mourn for his horse, so this time he listened to the tale which the groom had invented, and sent for the youth.

Who acts: king · What happens: not cease, mourn, listen, invent, send · To what, where: groom

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ceased	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ceased	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ceased	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 ceased	advmod
6	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 mourn	mark
8	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ceased	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mourn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listened	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 listened	advmod
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 listened	obl:unmarked
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 listened	nsubj
17	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ceased	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 tale	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 listened	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 invented	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 groom	det
23	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 invented	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 invented	aux
25	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tale	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sent	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sent	cc
28	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 listened	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 youth	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 youth	det
31	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sent	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not cease	past · perfect	the king		now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	mourn	to-infinitive	the king not said here			for king's horse	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for horse=Attribute
3	listen	past	king		time	to the tale	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme
4	invent	past · perfect · passive		the groom			tree rules
5	send	participle	king not said here			for the youth	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

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