The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 32
This grieved the tender heart of his pretty daughter, who loved him dearly, and was the comfort of his life.
Who acts: This, pretty daughter · What happens: grieve, love, be · To what, where: tender heart, Master, comfort
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, pretty daughter), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 grieved | nsubj |
| 2 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 4 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | compound |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grieved | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loved | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 12 loved | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comfort | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 comfort | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 comfort | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 comfort | det |
| 19 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grieved | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comfort | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past | This | the tender heart of Master's pretty daughter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | love | past | Master's pretty daughter | Master | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the comfort | of Master's life | tree rules |
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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