The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 63

Her father lost a battle only a few days ago because you had stolen his sword from him, and the Sister of the Sun herself is almost dead of grief.

Who acts: father, Sister · What happens: lose, steal, be · To what, where: battle, you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Sister), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 battle	det
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 days	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 days	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 lost	advmod
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 stolen	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 stolen	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stolen	aux
14	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lost	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sword	nmod:poss
16	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stolen	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stolen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dead	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dead	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Sister	det
22	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 dead	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Sun	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sun	det
25	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Sister	nmod
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 Sister	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 dead	cop
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 dead	advmod
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lost	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 grief	case
31	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dead	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past	woman's father	a battle	ago property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
2	steal	past · perfect · passive		you	from father	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sword=Theme
3	is	present	the Sister of the Sun woman		of grief; almost, dead property	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 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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