The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 103

In return, the lady informed him that she had lately lost her husband, and suggested that they might both find it a comfort if they made friends.

Who acts: lady, kings · What happens: inform, lose, suggest, find, make · To what, where: boy, return, husband, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, kings), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 informed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 informed	nsubj
6	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 informed	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lost	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
11	lately	lately	ADV	_	12 lost	advmod
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 informed	ccomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 suggested	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 suggested	cc
17	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 informed	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 find	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
21	both	both	ADV	_	22 find	advmod
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 suggested	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 comfort	det
25	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 find	ccomp
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 made	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	the lady		boy	return		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lose	past · perfect	lady	lady's husband			lately property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
3	suggest speech: suggest	past	the lady not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	find	might	kings = king	return			both property	tree rules
5	make a condition, not said to happen	past	kings = king	friends				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

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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