The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 24

This likewise he promised her, and soon she died, and for seven years the king sent a man every morning to see that nothing was growing on the queen’s grave, but at the end of seven years he forgot.

Who acts: man, wife, king, nothing · What happens: promise, die, send, see, grow, forget · To what, where: wife, man, grave, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, king, nothing), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 likewise	nsubj
2	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 died	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 died	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sent	cc
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sent	obl:unmarked
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	nsubj
18	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obj
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 morning	det
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl:unmarked
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sent	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 growing	mark
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 growing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 growing	aux
28	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 see	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	33 grave	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 queen	det
31	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grave	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 queen	case
33	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 growing	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 forgot	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 forgot	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 end	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 forgot	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 years	case
40	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 years	nummod
41	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 end	nmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 forgot	nsubj
43	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	man		wife			likewise property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	die	past	wife					soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	send	past	the king	a man			morning; year		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the king not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	grow	past · progressive	nothing			the queen's grave			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grave=Location
6	forget	past	man				at the end of seven years		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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