The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 13
When she was gone the King felt how much he had loved her, and his grief was so great (though he never neglected his duties) that his subjects called him Peridor the Sorrowful.
Who acts: wife, King, wedding, grief, subjects · What happens: be, feel, love, not neglect, call · To what, where: much, wife, duties, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, King, wedding, grief), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | ccomp |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loved | aux |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 much | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 great | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grief | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 great | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 great | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | conj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 neglected | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 neglected | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 neglected | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 neglected | advmod |
| 25 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 great | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 duties | nmod:poss |
| 27 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 neglected | obj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 called | mark |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 31 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 called | nsubj |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 called | obj |
| 34 | Peridor | Peridor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 called | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Sorrowful | det |
| 36 | Sorrowful | Sorrowful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Peridor | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the King | much | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | past · perfect | wedding | wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | wedding's grief | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not neglect | past | wedding | wedding's duties | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | past | wedding's subjects | wedding | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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