The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 66

They had been married for seven years, but had neither son nor daughter, and that was a great grief to both of them.

Who acts: that · What happens: marry, have, be · To what, where: king, son, great grief

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 married	aux:pass
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 married	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	conj
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 son	cc:preconj
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 daughter	cc
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grief	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grief	cc
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 grief	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grief	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 grief	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grief	amod
21	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 both	case
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 grief	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 both	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · perfect · passive		king	year		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	have	past		son nor daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is a	past	that	a great grief		to both	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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