The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 55
Oh! how grieved the prince was to lose his faithful servant!
What happens: grieve, be, lose · To what, where: prince, faithful servant
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 grieved | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 grieved | advmod |
| 4 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | obj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lose | mark |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 was | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servant | nmod:poss |
| 11 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 servant | amod |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle | the prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | be | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | servant's faithful servant | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality |
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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