The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 9

Three years had passed since his marriage, and he lived very happily with his wife, but Heaven granted him no heir, which grieved the King greatly.

Who acts: KING, Heaven, heir · What happens: pass, live, grant, grieve, marry · To what, where: Three years, heir, KING

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KING, Heaven, 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	aux
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	since	since	ADP	_	7 marriage	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 marriage	nmod:poss
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lived	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 happily	advmod
13	happily	happily	ADV	_	11 lived	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 granted	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 granted	cc
19	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 granted	nsubj
20	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 granted	obj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 heir	det
23	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 granted	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grieved	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 grieved	nsubj
26	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heir	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 King	det
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 grieved	obj
29	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	26 grieved	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		Three years		since KING's marriage		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	live	past	KING				with KING's wife; happily property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location
3	grant	past	Heaven	no heir	KING			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal heir=Theme
4	grieve	past	no heir	the King			greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
5	marry		KING					nom marriage «state 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 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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