Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 22
The widowed queen was greatly grieved at the way the boy king had taken her words; still, she thought it best now to help him on his way, rather than to thwart him.
Who acts: boy king, queen · What happens: widow, grieve, take, think, help, thwart · To what, where: widowed queen, words, way, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy king, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grieved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grieved | aux:pass |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 grieved | advmod |
| 6 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | compound |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 grieved | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taken | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 thought | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grieved | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 best | expl |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 thought | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 way | nmod:poss |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thwart | punct |
| 32 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 35 thwart | cc |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 rather | fixed |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 thwart | mark |
| 35 | thwart | thwart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 help | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thwart | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | grieve | past · passive | the widowed queen | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | the boy king | queen's words | the way | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent word=Theme at way=Asset | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | queen | still; now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | king | king's way | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | thwart | to-infinitive | king | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | word | queen | nom word «communication 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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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