English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 61

King Arthur and his whole court were so sorry at the loss of their little favourite that they went into mourning and raised a fine white marble monument over his grave with the following epitaph:

Who acts: King Arthur, spiders · What happens: be, go, raise, follow · To what, where: loss, mourning, fine white marble monument, grave

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Arthur, spiders), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Arthur	compound
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sorry	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 court	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 court	nmod:poss
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 court	amod
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Arthur	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sorry	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 sorry	advmod
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 loss	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 loss	det
12	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorry	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 favourite	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 favourite	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 favourite	amod
16	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 loss	acl:relcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 went	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 favourite	ccomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 mourning	case
21	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 raised	cc
23	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 monument	det
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 monument	amod
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 monument	amod
27	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 monument	amod
28	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 raised	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 grave	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grave	nmod:poss
31	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 monument	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 epitaph	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 epitaph	det
34	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 epitaph	case
35	epitaph	epitaph	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grave	nmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	King Arthur and Arthur's whole court		the loss	sorry property	tree rules
2	go	past	spiders = spider		mourning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mourning=Initial_Location
3	raise	past	spiders = spider not said here	a fine white marble monument	Arthur's grave with the epitaph		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monument=Theme over grave=Destination
4	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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