The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 49

The cat colony had not yet taken another servant, for they knew they could never get one to replace Lizina, whose loss they had not yet ceased to mourn.

Who acts: mother, one · What happens: not take, know, not get, replace, not cease, mourn · To what, where: cat colony, one, Lizina, loss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, one), 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	3 colony	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colony	compound
3	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 taken	advmod
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 knew	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	conj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	ccomp
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 get	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 replace	mark
20	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 get	xcomp
21	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 replace	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 loss	punct
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 loss	nmod:poss
24	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Lizina	appos
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ceased	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ceased	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 ceased	advmod
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 ceased	advmod
29	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 loss	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 mourn	mark
31	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ceased	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not take	past · perfect · passive		the cat colony	yet	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme servant=Destination
2	know	past	mother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not get	could	mother	one		tree rules
4	replace	to-infinitive	one not said here	Lizina		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lizina=Co-Theme
5	not cease	past · perfect	mother	Lizina's loss not said here	yet	tree rules
6	mourn	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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