The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 36

During his absence the queen fell ill, and after lingering for some time she died, to the great grief of her children.

Who acts: queen, king · What happens: fall, linger, die, absent · To what, where: time

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (queen, king), 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	During	during	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	6 fell	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lingering	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lingering	cc
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 lingering	mark
11	lingering	linger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fell	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lingering	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grief	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 grief	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grief	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grief	amod
21	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lingering	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 children	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 children	nmod:poss
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grief	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the queen		during king's absence	ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	linger	gerund	the queen not said here		time	to the great grief of queen's children	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	queen	some time not said here			tree rules
4	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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