The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 126

But before that happened, the people who saw him sitting lonely on the shore had heard his story, and when their children were restless they used to tell them of the good son who from love to his parents had given up for their sakes the splendour and wonders of the palace in the sea, and the most beautiful woman in the world besides.

Who acts: that, people, death, shore, children, good son · What happens: happen, see, sit, hear, be, use · To what, where: death, story, people, love, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, people, death, shore), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 happened	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saw	xcomp
12	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sitting	xcomp
13	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 heard	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shore	det
15	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sitting	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 story	nmod:poss
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 restless	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 restless	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 restless	advmod
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 children	nmod:poss
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 restless	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 restless	cop
26	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 restless	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 son	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 son	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 son	amod
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obl
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 given	nsubj
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 love	case
38	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 given	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 parents	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 parents	nmod:poss
41	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 love	nmod
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 given	aux
43	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 son	acl:relcl
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 given	compound:prt
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 sakes	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 sakes	nmod:poss
47	sakes	sake	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 given	obl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 splendour	det
49	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sakes	nmod:unmarked
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 wonders	cc
51	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 sakes	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 palace	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 palace	det
54	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wonders	nmod
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 sea	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 sea	det
57	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 palace	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 besides	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 besides	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 woman	det
61	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	62 beautiful	advmod
62	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 woman	amod
63	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 besides	nsubj
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 world	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 world	det
66	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 woman	nmod
67	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the people	death				tree rules
3	sit	gerund	death not said here				lonely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past · perfect	the shore	death's story				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
5	is	past	people's children				restless property	tree rules
6	use	past	people					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	people not said here		people		of the good son	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
8	give up	past · perfect	the good son			love to death's parents	for people's sakes the splendour and wonders of the palace in the sea	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	beside	present	the beautiful woman in the world					tree rules
10	wonder			the palace in the sea				nom wonder «feeling 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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