The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 6

The Queen grieved over the sad fate of her sons and refused to be comforted, so much so that the youngest boy, who was always with her, and whom she had christened Benjamin, said to her one day:

Who acts: Queen, youngest boy · What happens: grieve, refuse, not comfort, be, christen, say · To what, where: sad fate, wife, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, youngest boy), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grieved	nsubj
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 fate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fate	det
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fate	amod
7	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grieved	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sons	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sons	nmod:poss
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fate	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 refused	cc
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grieved	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 comforted	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 comforted	aux:pass
15	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 refused	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 boy	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	23 boy	advmod
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 boy	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
22	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 boy	amod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grieved	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 her	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 her	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 her	cop
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 her	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 boy	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 christened	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 christened	cc
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 christened	obj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 christened	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 christened	aux
35	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grieved	conj
36	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 christened	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grieved	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 day	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 day	nmod:poss
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 day	nummod
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past	the Queen		the sad fate of Queen's sons			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	refuse	past	the Queen not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not comfort	to-infinitive · passive	the Queen not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	is	past	the youngest boy				with wife; always property	tree rules
5	christen	past · perfect · passive		wife				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past				day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	fate			Queen's sons				nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient

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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