The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 77

The queen did so, and the wise woman came, and to her she confided her sorrow, that she, was childless, and the king and his kingdom had no heir.

Who acts: queen, wise woman, king · What happens: do, come, confide, be, have, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, queen, heir

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 (queen, wise woman, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 confided	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 confided	cc
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 confided	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 confided	nsubj
16	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sorrow	nmod:poss
18	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confided	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 childless	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 childless	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 childless	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 she	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 childless	cop
24	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 confided	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kingdom	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 kingdom	nmod:poss
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 king	conj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 heir	det
34	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the queen				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the wise woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	confide speech: other	past	queen	queen's sorrow	queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Topic to she=Recipient
4	is	past	queen			childless property	tree rules
5	have	past	the king and country's kingdom	no heir			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient
6	sorrow		queen				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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