The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 26

There was great mourning throughout all the isles, and the boy and his father mourned her bitterly also; but before the new year came the king had married another wife, and seemed to have forgotten his old one.

Who acts: great mourning, boy, new year, king · What happens: be, mourn, come, marry, seem, forget · To what, where: mourning, wife, old one

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great mourning, boy, new year, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:374): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mourning	amod
4	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	8 isles	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 isles	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 isles	det
8	isles	isle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mourning	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mourned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mourned	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mourned	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 father	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	conj
16	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mourned	obj
18	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	16 mourned	advmod
19	also	also	ADV	_	16 mourned	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 married	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 married	cc
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 year	det
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 year	amod
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 married	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 married	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 married	aux
30	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	conj
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 wife	det
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 married	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seemed	cc
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 married	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 forgotten	mark
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 forgotten	aux
38	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 seemed	xcomp
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 one	nmod:poss
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 one	amod
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forgotten	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	great mourning throughout all isles		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mourn	past	the boy and boy's father	mourning		bitterly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	come	past	the new year				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	marry	past · perfect	the king	another wife			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
5	seem	past	the king not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	forget	to-infinitive · perfect	the king not said here	boy's old one			tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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