The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 81
His wife and son mourned his loss bitterly, for, in spite of his faults, he had always been kind to them.
Who acts: wife, king · What happens: mourn, be, spite, fault · To what, where: loss, faults
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 (wife, 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 | 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 | 5 mourned | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 son | cc |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 5 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 loss | nmod:poss |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mourned | obj |
| 8 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 5 mourned | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spite | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 spite | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spite | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 spite | case |
| 13 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mourned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 faults | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 faults | nmod:poss |
| 16 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spite | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kind | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kind | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kind | aux |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 kind | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 kind | cop |
| 22 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mourned | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kind | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | king's wife and son | king's loss | for spite of king's faults; bitterly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus for spite=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | king | faults = fault | always, kind property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spite | king's faults | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | fault | king | nom fault «act 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.
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