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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

nmod:possamodnsubjpunctdetamodccconjappospunctcasedetoblcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctccdetnsubj:passnmod:possnmodaux:passadvmodamodcaseoblcasenmodoblnsubjnmod:possamodnsubjcopcasedetacl:relclcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootHisPRONfirstADJwifeNOUN,PUNCTaDETgoodADJandCCONJbeautifulADJwomanNOUN,PUNCTdiedVERBatADPtheDETbirthNOUNofADPherPRONlittleADJsonNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETKingPROPNherPRONhusbandNOUNwasAUXsoADVoverwhelmedVERBwithADPgriefNOUNatADPherPRONlossNOUNthatPRONhisPRONonlyADJcomfortNOUNwasAUXinADPtheDETsightNOUNofADPhisPRONheirNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 wifenmod:poss
2firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord3 wifeamod
3wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 diednsubj
4,,PUNCT_9 womanpunct
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 womandet
6goodgoodADJDegree=Pos9 womanamod
7andandCCONJ_8 beautifulcc
8beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos6 goodconj
9womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing3 wifeappos
10,,PUNCT_3 wifepunct
11dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12atatADP_14 birthcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 birthdet
14birthbirthNOUNNumber=Sing11 diedobl
15ofofADP_18 soncase
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 sonnmod:poss
17littlelittleADJDegree=Pos18 sonamod
18sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing14 birthnmod
19,,PUNCT_27 overwhelmedpunct
20andandCCONJ_27 overwhelmedcc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Kingdet
22KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing27 overwhelmednsubj:pass
23herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 husbandnmod:poss
24husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing22 Kingnmod
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 overwhelmedaux:pass
26sosoADV_27 overwhelmedadvmod
27overwhelmedoverwhelmVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass32 lossamod
28withwithADP_29 griefcase
29griefgriefNOUNNumber=Sing32 lossobl
30atatADP_31 hercase
31hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 griefnmod
32losslossNOUNNumber=Sing11 diedobl
33thatthatPRONPronType=Rel40 sightnsubj
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 comfortnmod:poss
35onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos36 comfortamod
36comfortcomfortNOUNNumber=Sing40 sightnsubj
37wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 sightcop
38ininADP_40 sightcase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 sightdet
40sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing32 lossacl:relcl
41ofofADP_43 heircase
42hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 heirnmod:poss
43heirheirNOUNNumber=Sing40 sightnmod
44..PUNCT_11 diedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1diepastKing's first wifeoverwhelmed lossthe birth of wife's little sonvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2overwhelmpast · passivethe King wife's husbandvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3ispastoverwhelmed lossthe sightof King's heirtree rules
4comfortKingnom 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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