The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 66

In the forest they met a woodcutter, who told them that in the palace, as well as in all the land, there had been great sorrow over the loss of the prince, and many years had now passed away during which they had found no traces of him.

Who acts: words, woodcutter · What happens: meet, tell, have, be, pass away, find · To what, where: woodcutter, forest, words, loss, great sorrow, many years · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, woodcutter), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 forest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woodcutter	det
7	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woodcutter	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 palace	mark
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 land	punct
17	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 land	cc
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 as	fixed
19	as	as	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 land	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 land	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 land	det
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palace	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 had	expl
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 sorrow	cop
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sorrow	amod
29	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 loss	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 loss	det
32	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 prince	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prince	det
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 loss	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 passed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 passed	cc
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 years	amod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 passed	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 passed	aux
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 passed	advmod
42	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 met	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 passed	advmod
44	during	during	ADP	_	48 found	mark
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 found	nsubj:pass
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 found	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 found	aux
48	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 passed	advcl
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 traces	det
50	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 found	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 traces	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	words = word	a woodcutter		the forest			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodcutter=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	a woodcutter		words = word				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	have	past	words = word not said here			the loss of the prince; there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	participle		great sorrow					tree rules
5	pass away	past · perfect · passive		many years			now	away property	tree rules
6	find	past · perfect · passive		no traces of prince					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme trace=Attribute

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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