The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 93

The Prince’s grief at the death of his mother was great, but it was nothing compared to that of the King, his father, who was quite inconsolable for the loss of his dear wife.

Who acts: mother, death, father · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, death, father), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grief	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Prince	case
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 death	det
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grief	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 great	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 great	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 great	cop
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 death	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 nothing	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nothing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nothing	cop
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 grief	appos
18	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 nothing	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 compared	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 King	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 compared	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 father	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grief	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 inconsolable	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 inconsolable	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 inconsolable	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 inconsolable	advmod
31	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 father	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 loss	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 loss	det
34	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 inconsolable	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 wife	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
37	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 wife	amod
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 loss	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	godmother's mother		great property	tree rules
2	is a	past	death	nothing		tree rules
3	compare	participle			of the King	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	godmother's father		for the loss of godmother's dear wife; inconsolable property	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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