The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 96
Meantime the former governess of the unfortunate Alphege, who had lost her husband soon after the King’s death, retired to her own house with her daughter, who grew up a lovely and most loveable girl, and both continued to mourn the loss of their dear Prince.
Who acts: former governess, daughter, King · What happens: lose, retire, grow up, continue, mourn, die · To what, where: husband, former governess, lovely girl, both, loss
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 (former governess, daughter, 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 governess | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 governess | det |
| 3 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 governess | amod |
| 4 | governess | governess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Alphege | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Alphege | det |
| 7 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Alphege | amod |
| 8 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 governess | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 governess | acl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lost | advmod |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 death | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 retired | punct |
| 22 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 governess | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 house | amod |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 retired | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 daughter | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grew | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 grew | nsubj |
| 32 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 grew | compound:prt |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 girl | det |
| 35 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 girl | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 loveable | cc |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 loveable | advmod |
| 38 | loveable | loveable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lovely | conj |
| 39 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 continued | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 continued | cc |
| 42 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 governess | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 mourn | mark |
| 45 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 continued | xcomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 loss | det |
| 47 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 mourn | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Prince | case |
| 49 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 50 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 Prince | amod |
| 51 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 loss | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 governess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | the former governess of the unfortunate Alphege | Meantime's husband | after the King's death | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | retire | participle | the former governess of the unfortunate Alphege not said here | to Meantime's own house with Meantime's daughter | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow up | past | Meantime's daughter | a lovely girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | continue | participle · passive | both | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mourn | to-infinitive | the loss of husband's dear Prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | die | the King | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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