The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 67
His first wife, a good and beautiful woman, died at the birth of her little son, and the King her husband was so overwhelmed with grief at her loss that his only comfort was in the sight of his heir.
Who acts: first wife, overwhelmed loss, King · What happens: die, overwhelm, be, comfort · To what, where: overwhelmed loss, birth, King, sight
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (first wife, overwhelmed loss, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 woman | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beautiful | cc |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 birth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birth | det |
| 14 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 son | amod |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 birth | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 overwhelmed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 overwhelmed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 overwhelmed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 King | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 overwhelmed | advmod |
| 27 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 loss | amod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 grief | case |
| 29 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 loss | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 grief | nmod |
| 32 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 sight | nsubj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 35 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 comfort | amod |
| 36 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sight | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sight | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 sight | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sight | det |
| 40 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 loss | acl:relcl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 heir | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 heir | nmod:poss |
| 43 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sight | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | King's first wife | overwhelmed loss | the birth of wife's little son | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | overwhelm | past · passive | the King wife's husband | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | overwhelmed loss | the sight | of King's heir | tree rules | |||
| 4 | comfort | King | nom comfort «state transitive»: 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 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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