The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 11

Now, his first love heard of this, and the thought of her lover’s desertion grieved her so sadly that she pined away and nearly died.

Who acts: first love, thought, love, King, lover · What happens: hear, grieve, pine away, die, love, think · To what, where: love, desertion

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first love, thought, love, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 heard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 love	nmod:poss
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 love	amod
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 heard	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grieved	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grieved	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thought	det
12	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grieved	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 desertion	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lover	nmod:poss
15	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 desertion	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 lover	case
17	desertion	desertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nmod
18	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grieved	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 sadly	advmod
21	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	18 grieved	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 pined	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pined	nsubj
24	pined	pine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grieved	advcl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 pined	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 died	cc
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	28 died	advmod
28	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pined	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	King's first love		now	of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
2	grieve	past	the thought of thought's lover's desertion	love		sadly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	pine away	past	love			away property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	die	past	love not said here			nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	love		King				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	think			thought's lover's desertion			nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	desert		thought's lover				nom desertion «act 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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