English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 3

The king mourned her long and faithfully, but one day while he was hunting he came across a lady of great beauty, and became so much in love with her that he determined to marry her.

Who acts: king · What happens: mourn, hunt, come, become, determine, marry · To what, where: one day, mother

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mourned	nsubj
3	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 long	nmod:poss
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mourned	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 faithfully	cc
7	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	5 long	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl:unmarked
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 hunting	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hunting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hunting	aux
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 day	acl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mourned	conj
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 lady	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lady	det
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 beauty	case
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beauty	amod
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lady	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mourned	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 love	case
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 much	nmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 much	nmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 determined	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 determined	nsubj
35	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 much	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 marry	mark
37	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 determined	xcomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 marry	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mourned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	past	the king				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hunt	past · progressive	king	one day not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme
3	come	past	king		day	across a lady of great beauty	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across lady=Initial_Location
4	become	past	the king not said here			much property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	determine	past	king				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	marry	to-infinitive	king not said here	mother			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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