The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 15

And the wife of Iarlaid mourned him sore, and her wrath was kindled, and many times she tried to slay Manus and his cub, but she could not.

Who acts: wife · What happens: mourn, kindle, try, slay · To what, where: Iarlaid, wrath, Manus

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 mourned	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mourned	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Iarlaid	case
5	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod
6	mourned	mourn	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 mourned	obj
8	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mourned	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kindled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kindled	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wrath	nmod:poss
12	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kindled	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kindled	aux:pass
14	kindled	kindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mourned	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tried	cc
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 times	amod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tried	obl:unmarked
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tried	nsubj
20	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kindled	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 slay	mark
22	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tried	xcomp
23	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 slay	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cub	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cub	nmod:poss
26	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Manus	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 could	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 could	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 could	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 kindled	conj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 could	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mourned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	past	the wife of Iarlaid	Iarlaid		sore property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	kindle	past · passive		wife's wrath			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	try	past	wife		time		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	slay not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here	Manus and Manus's cub			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manus=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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