The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 6

The bear told her of the loss of his wife, and of his search after a mourner that could lament over her in the proper style.

Who acts: bear, that · What happens: tell, lament, search · To what, where: hare, proper style · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 loss	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loss	det
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loss	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lament	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lament	cc
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 search	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 search	nmod:poss
15	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lament	obl
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 mourner	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mourner	det
18	mourner	mourner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 search	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lament	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 lament	aux
21	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lament	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 style	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 style	det
26	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 style	amod
27	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lament	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the bear	hare			of the loss of bear's wife	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	lament	could	that		the proper style		of bear's search after a mourner; over hare	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	search		bear			after a mourner		nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent after=obl

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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