The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 102

‘Is it well for thee to mourn so bitterly for the dead, or for anything that is gone from thee?’

Who acts: grief, that · What happens: be · To what, where: thee

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (grief, that), 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	_	8 mourn	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mourn	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mourn	nsubj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 mourn	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 mourn	mark
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 mourn	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 mourn	mark
8	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 bitterly	advmod
10	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	8 mourn	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 dead	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dead	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mourn	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 gone	cc
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 anything	case
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 gone	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 gone	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 mourn	advcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 thee	case
22	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 gone	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mourn	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 mourn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	grief					for the dead; bitterly, mourn, well property	tree rules
2	is	present	that			thee		for anything; go 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 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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