The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 34

During his whole illness the King never spoke of anything but the Queen, his sorrow at having grieved her, and his hope of one day seeing her again.

Who acts: King, sorrow, Saphir, one day · What happens: not speak, have, grieve, see, sorrow, hope · To what, where: hope, Queen · 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 (King, sorrow, Saphir, one day), 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	During	during	ADP	_	4 illness	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 illness	nmod:poss
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 illness	amod
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 spoke	advmod
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 anything	case
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 spoke	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 Queen	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 anything	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sorrow	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sorrow	nmod:poss
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anything	conj
17	at	at	SCONJ	_	18 having	mark
18	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 sorrow	acl
19	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 having	xcomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grieved	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hope	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hope	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hope	nmod:poss
24	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hope	nmod
28	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 spoke	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seeing	obj
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 seeing	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past	the King	Saphir's hope of one day	during Saphir's whole illness	of anything	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund	Saphir's sorrow not said here				tree rules
3	grieve	participle	Saphir's sorrow not said here	Queen			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	see	gerund	the King not said here	Queen	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	sorrow		Saphir				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	hope		one day				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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 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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