The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 57

The King was so distressed when he heard it that he was almost overcome by grief.

Who acts: King, grief · What happens: distress, hear, overcome · To what, where: King, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, grief), 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	5 distressed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distressed	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 distressed	advmod
5	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distressed	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 overcome	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 overcome	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 overcome	aux:pass
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 overcome	advmod
14	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 heard	ccomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 grief	case
16	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 overcome	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 distressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	distress	past · passive		the King		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hear	past	King	care		tree rules
3	overcome	past · passive	grief	King	almost property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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