The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 89
She also sorrowed greatly over it, because, although the king said nothing to her about this trouble, yet she could see that it vexed him that they had no heir to the kingdom; and she wished every day that she might have one.
Who acts: queen, king, heart, others · What happens: sorrow, say, see, vex, have, wish · To what, where: heart, nothing, queen, king, heir, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. 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, heart, others), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sorrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 sorrowed | advmod |
| 3 | sorrowed | sorrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 sorrowed | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sorrowed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorrowed | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 said | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 trouble | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 trouble | det |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sorrowed | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 vexed | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 vexed | nsubj |
| 27 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | ccomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 vexed | obj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 vexed | advcl |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 heir | det |
| 33 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 kingdom | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 kingdom | det |
| 36 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 heir | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 wished | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 wished | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 wished | nsubj |
| 40 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorrowed | conj |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 day | det |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 have | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 have | nsubj |
| 45 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | aux |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wished | advcl |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 have | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sorrow | past | queen | heart | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | nothing | queen | about this trouble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to she=Recipient | ||
| 3 | see | could | queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | vex | past | heart | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | have | past | others = other | no heir | to the kingdom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient | |||
| 6 | wish | past | queen | day | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 7 | have | might | queen | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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