The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 6

So, to the despair of King Gridelin, the Queen first of all became very ill, and then disappeared altogether.

Who acts: despair, King · What happens: become, disappear, despair

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (despair, King), 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	So	so	ADV	_	15 became	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 despair	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 despair	det
5	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 King	case
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 despair	nmod
8	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Queen	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	conj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 despair	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 despair	nmod
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 ill	advmod
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 disappeared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 disappeared	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 disappeared	advmod
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 became	advcl
22	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	21 disappeared	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the despair of King and the Queen of all		ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	disappear	past	the despair of King and the Queen of all not said here	then	altogether property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	despair		King and the Queen			nom despair «state 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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