The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 87

Now the fairy Tulip was as much grieved at the sad fate of the princess as Desiree's own mother could have been if she had known of it.

What happens: grieve, know, fate · To what, where: fairy Tulip, sad fate, own mother, princess

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 grieved	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tulip	det
3	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tulip	amod
4	Tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grieved	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grieved	aux:pass
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grieved	nsubj:pass
8	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 fate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fate	det
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fate	amod
12	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grieved	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 princess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fate	nmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 known	mark
17	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 mother	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Desiree	case
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	amod
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 known	nsubj:pass
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 known	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 known	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 known	aux:pass
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 known	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 known	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 known	aux
27	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grieved	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 known	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive	the fairy Tulip	the sad fate of the princess	now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	know	could · perfect · passive	Desiree's own mother			of fate	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	fate		the princess				nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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