The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 99

When the little boy was only ten years old the queen, his mother, fell ill and died, and the king, who loved her dearly, built a splendid monument to his wife’s memory, and day after day he sat by it and bewailed his sad loss.

Who acts: little boy, old queen, king, boy · What happens: be, fall, die, love, build, sit · To what, where: dearly, splendid monument, sad loss

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 (little boy, old queen, king, boy), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	9 old	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 old	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 old	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 ten	advmod
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 old	obl:unmarked
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 queen	amod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 queen	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 queen	punct
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fell	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fell	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 loved	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 loved	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loved	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 loved	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 loved	nsubj
26	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fell	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 dearly	nmod:poss
28	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 loved	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 built	punct
30	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 loved	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 monument	det
32	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 monument	amod
33	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 memory	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 memory	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 wife	case
38	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sat	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sat	cc
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sat	obl:unmarked
42	after	after	ADP	_	43 day	case
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 day	nmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sat	nsubj
45	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fell	parataxis
46	by	by	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sat	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 bewailed	cc
49	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 sat	conj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 loss	nmod:poss
51	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 loss	amod
52	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bewailed	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little boy		year	old property	tree rules
2	fall	past	the old queen			ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	the old queen not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	love	past	the king	queen's dearly			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus
5	build	past	the king not said here	a splendid monument		to boy's wife's memory	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset monument=Product
6	sit	past	boy		day	by memory	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location
7	bewail	past	boy not said here	boy's sad loss			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus

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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