The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 121
The King and Queen were at church, weeping for their son, whom they had long mourned for dead.
Who acts: King, church, maidens · What happens: be, weep, mourn · To what, where: church
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, church, maidens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 church | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 church | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weeping | punct |
| 9 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 church | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weeping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mourned | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 mourned | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mourned | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mourned | aux |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 mourned | advmod |
| 18 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 church | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dead | case |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mourned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 church | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King and Queen | church | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | church not said here | for maidens's son | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mourn | past · perfect | maidens = maiden | church | for dead; long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for dead=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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