The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 119

Whilst he was an old and tried servant of the king’s, his wife had been almost a mother to the young princess ever since the queen had died some years before.

Who acts: king, wife, queen · What happens: be, try, die · To what, where: servant, mother, young princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wife, queen), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	5 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 old	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tried	cc
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	conj
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 servant	nmod
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mother	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 mother	cop
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 mother	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mother	det
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 princess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 princess	amod
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	nmod
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 died	advmod
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 died	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 queen	det
28	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 died	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 died	aux
30	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 princess	acl:relcl
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 years	det
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 died	obl
33	before	before	ADV	_	32 years	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king			old property	tree rules
2	try	past	king not said here	servant of the king			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality
3	is a	past · perfect	king's wife	a mother		to the young princess; almost property	tree rules
4	die	past · perfect	the queen	the young princess not said here	ever; year		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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