The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 83
‘For four years, you, O king, had been married to the queen and yet had no children, which grieved you greatly.
Who acts: children · What happens: marry, have, grieve · To what, where: children, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 married | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 you | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 years | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
| 8 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 you | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 married | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 married | aux:pass |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 had | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 married | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 children | det |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grieved | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 grieved | nsubj |
| 24 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 children | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 grieved | obj |
| 26 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 24 grieved | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | year | to the queen | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to queen=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | no children | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grieve | past | no children | you | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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