Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 141

The birds had all been silent for three days, and when the time of mourning was over, so deep had been their grief, that they had forgotten for whom they wept.

Who acts: birds, time · What happens: have, be, forget, weep · To what, where: deep grief

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, time), 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 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 silent	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 silent	cop
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 silent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 over	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 over	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 over	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 over	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 mourning	case
16	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 over	cop
18	over	over	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grief	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 deep	advmod
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grief	amod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grief	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 grief	cop
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grief	nmod:poss
25	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 forgotten	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 forgotten	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forgotten	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 forgotten	aux
30	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 grief	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 whom	case
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 forgotten	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wept	nsubj
34	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 whom	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the birds				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	the birds not said here		day	all, silent property	tree rules
3	is	past	the time of mourning			over property	tree rules
4	is a	past · perfect		birds's deep grief			tree rules
5	forget	past · perfect	birds = bird			for birds's deep grief	tree rules
6	weep	past	birds = bird				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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