The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 116

When Halvor awoke he knew that he had lost the Princesses, and began to weep and lament, and was so unhappy that he could not be comforted.

Who acts: Halvor · What happens: awake, know, lose, begin, weep, lament · To what, where: Princesses, Halvor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 knew	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princesses	det
11	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 lost	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 weep	mark
16	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lament	cc
18	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 weep	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 unhappy	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 unhappy	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 unhappy	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 unhappy	advmod
23	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 began	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 comforted	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 comforted	nsubj:pass
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 comforted	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 comforted	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 comforted	aux:pass
29	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 unhappy	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	awake	past	Halvor			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	Halvor			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lose	past · perfect	Halvor	the Princesses		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
4	begin	past	Halvor not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weep	to-infinitive	Halvor not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lament	infinitive	Halvor not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past			unhappy property	tree rules
8	not comfort	could · passive		Halvor		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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