The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 94

Thus some time went on, while the King was almost beside himself with sorrow and care for the loss of his Queen, and because these monsters destroyed all mirth in the hall.

Who acts: time, King, monsters · What happens: go on, be, destroy · To what, where: mirth, hall

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, King, monsters), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 himself	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 himself	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 himself	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 himself	cop
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 himself	advmod
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 went	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 sorrow	case
15	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 care	cc
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sorrow	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 loss	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 loss	det
20	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 care	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Queen	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 Queen	nmod:poss
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 loss	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 destroyed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 destroyed	cc
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 destroyed	mark
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 monsters	det
28	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 destroyed	nsubj
29	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 mirth	det
31	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 destroyed	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hall	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hall	det
34	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 destroyed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	some time			with sorrow and care for the loss of Hermod's Queen; thus property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the King			beside Hermod; almost property	tree rules
3	destroy	past	this monsters	all mirth	the hall		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirth=Patient

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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