The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 87

So a great fire was lit in the courtyard of the palace, where she was to be burnt, and the King watched the proceedings from an upper window, crying bitterly the while, for he still loved his wife dearly.

Who acts: Queen, King, word · What happens: lit, be, watch, cry, love · To what, where: great fire, courtyard, proceedings, upper window, wife

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, King, word), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 lit	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fire	amod
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	aux:pass
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 courtyard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 courtyard	det
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 courtyard	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 burnt	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 burnt	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 burnt	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 burnt	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	19 burnt	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 burnt	cop
19	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 palace	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 watched	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 watched	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 watched	nsubj
24	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 proceedings	det
26	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 watched	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 window	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 window	det
29	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 window	amod
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 watched	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crying	punct
32	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 watched	advcl
33	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	35 while	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 while	det
35	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crying	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 loved	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 loved	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 loved	nsubj
39	still	still	ADV	_	40 loved	advmod
40	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 watched	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 wife	nmod:poss
42	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 loved	obj
43	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	40 loved	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		a great fire	the courtyard of the palace			tree rules
2	is	past	Queen				burnt property	tree rules
3	watch	past	the King	the proceedings	a upper window			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proceedings=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the King not said here			while		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	love	past	word	word's wife		still	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

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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