The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 50

King Saman-lal-posh—Jessamine, wearer of rubies—had so bewept the loss of his sons that he was now blind.

Who acts: Saman · What happens: bewept, be · To what, where: loss

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saman), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Saman	compound
2	Saman	Saman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 posh	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Saman	punct
4	lal	lal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 posh	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 lal	punct
6	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bewept	parataxis
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 Jessamine	punct
8	Jessamine	Jessamine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 posh	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wearer	punct
10	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Jessamine	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 rubies	case
12	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wearer	nmod
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 Jessamine	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bewept	aux
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 bewept	advmod
16	bewept	bewept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 loss	det
18	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bewept	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sons	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sons	nmod:poss
21	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 loss	nmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 blind	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 blind	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 blind	cop
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 blind	advmod
26	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sons	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 bewept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bewept	past · perfect		the loss of Saman's sons					tree rules
2	is	past	Saman				now	blind 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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