The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 86
Their sons too were sadder than before, for they loved their sister well, and had never ceased to mourn for her.
Who acts: sons · What happens: be, love, not cease, mourn · To what, where: sister
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sadder | nsubj |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 sadder | advmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sadder | cop |
| 5 | sadder | sad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 before | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 sadder | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 loved | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sadder | parataxis |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | obj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 loved | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ceased | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ceased | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ceased | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 ceased | advmod |
| 19 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 loved | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 mourn | mark |
| 21 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ceased | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mourn | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sadder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gorla's sons | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | sons = son | Gorla's sister | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not cease | past · perfect | sons = son not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | mourn | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | for sister | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for she=Attribute |
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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