Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 100

This was a great grief to him, especially when he remembered that on his death there would be no heir to inherit the kingdom.

Who acts: This, king, heir · What happens: be, remember, inherit, die · To what, where: great grief, king, death, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, king, heir), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 grief	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grief	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grief	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grief	amod
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grief	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remembered	punct
9	especially	especially	ADV	_	12 remembered	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 remembered	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remembered	nsubj
12	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grief	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 be	mark
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 death	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 death	nmod:poss
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 be	obl
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 be	expl
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 remembered	ccomp
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 heir	det
21	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 be	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 inherit	mark
23	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 heir	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kingdom	det
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 inherit	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a great grief	king			tree rules
2	remember	past	king				especially property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	would	no heir			king's death; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on death=Location
4	inherit	to-infinitive	no heir not said here	the kingdom				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
5	die		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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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