The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 51

When Kieva, the wife of Pryderi, found that neither her husband nor his mother returned to her, she was in such sorrow that she cared not whether she lived or died.

Who acts: Kieva · What happens: find, return, be, not care, live, die · To what, where: Kieva, such sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kieva), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 found	advmod
2	Kieva	Kieva	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 found	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kieva	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Pryderi	case
7	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kieva	punct
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sorrow	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 returned	mark
11	neither	neither	ADP	_	13 husband	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 returned	obl
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 mother	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 husband	conj
17	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 returned	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sorrow	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sorrow	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sorrow	case
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sorrow	amod
25	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 cared	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cared	nsubj
28	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sorrow	advcl
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 cared	advmod
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	32 lived	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lived	nsubj
32	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cared	advcl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 died	cc
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lived	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sorrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Kieva				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	return	past		Kieva		neither Kieva's husband nor husband's mother	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result
3	is	past	Kieva		such sorrow		tree rules
4	not care	past	Kieva				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	live	past	Kieva				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die	past	Kieva not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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