The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 1

In times of yore there was a King and a Queen in the south of Ireland who had three sons, all beautiful children; but the Queen, their mother, sickened unto death when they were yet very young, which caused great grief throughout the Court, particularly to the King, her husband, who could in no wise be comforted.

Who acts: King, south, mother · What happens: be, have, sicken, cause, comfort · To what, where: Queen, three sons, mother, great grief, husband

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, south, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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