The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 36

The worst of it was that now they had no heir after all.

Who acts: worst · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worst), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1487): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worst	det
2	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worst	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 had	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 heir	det
11	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 had	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the worst				after all; now	have property	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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