The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 46

The old King was much grieved when they brought him the news of his son’s disappearance, but as he could do nothing to free him from his fate, he gave himself up to an old age of grief and loneliness, cherishing at the same time the hope that some lucky chance might one day deliver the youth out of the hands of his enemy.

Who acts: King, girth, hope, son · What happens: grieve, bring, do, give up, cherish, deliver · To what, where: old King, news, girth, nothing, old age, youth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, girth, hope, son), 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	3 King	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grieved	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieved	aux:pass
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 grieved	advmod
6	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 brought	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brought	nsubj
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieved	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brought	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 news	det
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 disappearance	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 disappearance	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 son	case
17	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 news	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 do	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grieved	parataxis
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 do	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 free	mark
26	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nothing	amod
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 free	nsubj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 fate	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fate	nmod:poss
30	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 free	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	nsubj
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 do	conj
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 gave	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 gave	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 age	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 age	det
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 age	amod
39	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 grief	case
41	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 age	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 loneliness	cc
43	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grief	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cherishing	punct
45	cherishing	cherish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 gave	advcl
46	at	at	ADP	_	49 time	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 time	det
48	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 time	amod
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cherishing	obj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 hope	det
51	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 time	nsubj
52	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 deliver	nsubj
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	55 chance	det
54	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 chance	amod
55	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 deliver	nsubj
56	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 deliver	aux
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 day	nummod
58	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 deliver	obl:unmarked
59	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 hope	acl:relcl
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 youth	det
61	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 deliver	obj
62	out	out	ADP	_	65 hands	case
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 hands	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 hands	det
65	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 deliver	obl
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 enemy	case
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 enemy	nmod:poss
68	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 hands	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		the old King				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	bring	past	King	the news of girth's son's disappearance	girth			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination news=Theme
3	do	could	girth	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	give up	past	girth	girth	a old age of grief and loneliness			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to age=Recipient
5	cherish	gerund	girth not said here				time	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	deliver	might	the hope	the youth		the hands of girth's enemy	day	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme out hand=Initial_Location
7	disappear		girth's son					nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent
8	fate		girth					nom fate «event 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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