The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 35

Now Gorla of the Flocks and his wife were full of grief that they had lost a son as well as a daughter, for no tidings had come to them of Ardan their eldest born.

Who acts: Gorla, Flocks, tidings · What happens: be, lose, come, bear · To what, where: son, Flocks

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gorla, Flocks, tidings), 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	10 full	advmod
2	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 full	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Flocks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Flocks	det
5	Flocks	Flock	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Gorla	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wife	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gorla	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 full	cop
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 grief	case
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 lost	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lost	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lost	aux
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 full	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 son	det
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lost	obj
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 daughter	cc
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	as	as	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 daughter	det
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lost	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 tidings	det
27	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 come	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 lost	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Ardan	case
33	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eldest	nmod:poss
35	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 Ardan	nmod
36	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 eldest	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gorla of the Flocks and man's wife			now	of grief; full property	tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect	Flocks = flock	a son				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality
3	come	past · perfect	no tidings		Flocks = flock		of Ardan Flocks's eldest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location of ardan=Destination
4	bear	participle	no tidings not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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 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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