The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 12

Soon after this, to the great grief of the Princess, the Queen was taken ill and died, and the King became so melancholy that for a whole year he shut himself up in his palace.

Who acts: King, tongue · What happens: take, die, become, shut up · To what, where: Queen, great grief, melancholy, palace

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, tongue), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 taken	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Soon	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 grief	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grief	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grief	amod
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 grief	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grief	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queen	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 taken	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 taken	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 became	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 died	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 melancholy	advmod
26	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	xcomp
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 shut	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 year	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 year	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 year	amod
31	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shut	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shut	nsubj
33	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 melancholy	acl:relcl
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 shut	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 shut	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 palace	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 palace	nmod:poss
38	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shut	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		the Queen	the great grief of the Princess		ill, soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to grief=Destination
2	die	past						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	become	past	the King	melancholy				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	shut up	past	tongue	melancholy	tongue's palace	year		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 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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