The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 10

On hearing this frightful announcement, the King and Queen gave a cry of despair, and entreated the Fairies to find some remedy for such an unheard-of misfortune.

Who acts: King, despair · What happens: hear, give, entreat, find, cry · To what, where: frightful announcement, cry, Fairies, remedy

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (King, despair), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 gave	advcl
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 announcement	det
4	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 announcement	amod
5	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hearing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Queen	cc
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cry	det
13	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 despair	case
15	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cry	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 entreated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 entreated	cc
18	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fairies	det
20	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 entreated	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 entreated	advcl
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 remedy	det
24	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	31 misfortune	case
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 misfortune	det:predet
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 misfortune	det
28	unheard	unheard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 misfortune	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 misfortune	punct
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 misfortune	case
31	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the King and Queen not said here	this frightful announcement			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer announcement=Stimulus
2	give	past	the King and Queen	a cry of despair			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
3	entreat	past	the King and Queen not said here		the Fairies		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient
4	find	to-infinitive	the King and Queen not said here	some remedy		for such unheard misfortune	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme for misfortune=Beneficiary
5	cry		despair				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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