The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 45

He had two children, a son and a daughter, who were more beautiful and accomplished than any Greeks had been before, and they were the pride of their father’s heart.

Who acts: name, son, children · What happens: have, be, accomplish · To what, where: two children, pride

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 (name, son, 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 children	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 daughter	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beautiful	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 beautiful	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beautiful	cop
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 beautiful	advmod
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 son	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 accomplished	cc
17	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 beautiful	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 Greeks	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 Greeks	det
20	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 accomplished	obl
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 before	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 before	cop
23	before	before	ADV	_	15 beautiful	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pride	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pride	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pride	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pride	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pride	det
29	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 heart	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heart	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 father	case
34	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pride	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	name	two children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	is	past	a son and a daughter		beautiful property	tree rules
3	accomplish	participle	a son and a daughter not said here		than any Greeks	vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect			before property	tree rules
5	is a	past	children = child	the pride	of children's father's heart	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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