The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 30

He had not seen them for some time, and they gave him a warm welcome, for they loved him dearly and he had always been kind to them.

Who acts: king, children · What happens: not see, give, love, be · To what, where: children, warm welcome, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, children), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 welcome	det
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 welcome	amod
16	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 loved	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 loved	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 loved	nsubj
20	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 loved	obj
22	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	20 loved	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kind	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kind	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 kind	aux
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 kind	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 kind	cop
28	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 loved	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kind	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	king	children = child		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	give	past	children = child	a warm welcome	king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient welcome=Theme
3	love	past	children = child	king			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	is	past · perfect	king		children = child		always, kind property	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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