The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 94

In his absence a son had been born to him, and so great was his joy that he quite forgot the mermaid and the price he had paid for the safety of his ship.

Who acts: king, price · What happens: bear, be, forget, pay, absent · To what, where: son, king, absence, great joy, mermaid

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, price), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 absence	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 absence	nmod:poss
3	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 born	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 born	aux:pass
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 born	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 great	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 great	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 great	advmod
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 joy	amod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 joy	cop
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 joy	nmod:poss
17	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	obl:unmarked
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 forgot	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forgot	nsubj
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 forgot	advmod
21	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 born	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mermaid	det
23	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forgot	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 price	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 price	det
26	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mermaid	conj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 paid	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 paid	aux
29	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 price	acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 safety	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 safety	det
32	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 paid	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 ship	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ship	nmod:poss
35	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 safety	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · perfect · passive		a son	king	king's absence		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past		king's great joy				tree rules
3	forget	past	king	the mermaid and the price				tree rules
4	pay	past · perfect · passive	the price not said here	king			for the safety of king's ship	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for safety=Theme
5	absent		king					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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