The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 37

But sad though everybody was, the Prince of the Golden Isle was perfectly inconsolable, and he passed both days and nights in bemoaning his loss.

Who acts: everybody, most · What happens: be, pass, bemoan · To what, where: everybody, loss

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, most), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 sad	cc
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 inconsolable	mark
4	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 inconsolable	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 everybody	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Prince	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 everybody	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Isle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Isle	det
11	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Isle	amod
12	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Prince	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 inconsolable	cop
14	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	15 inconsolable	advmod
15	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sad	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 passed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 passed	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passed	nsubj
19	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sad	parataxis
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 days	det
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 passed	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nights	cc
23	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 days	conj
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 bemoaning	mark
25	bemoaning	bemoan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 passed	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 loss	nmod:poss
27	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bemoaning	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		everybody			tree rules
2	is	past	everybody			inconsolable, perfectly property	tree rules
3	pass	past	most		day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bemoan	gerund	most not said here	most's loss			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 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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