--- title: There was great mourning throughout all the isles, and the boy and h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There was great mourning throughout all the isles, and the boy and his father mourned her bitterly also; but before the new year came the king had married another wife, and seemed to have forgotten his old one. Who acts: great mourning, boy, new year, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/) / 26 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 26 There was great mourning throughout all the isles, and the boy and his father mourned her bitterly also; but before the new year came the king had married another wife, and seemed to have forgotten his old one. **Who acts:** great mourning, boy, new year, king · **What happens:** be, mourn, come, marry, seem, forget · **To what, where:** mourning, wife, old one This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great mourning, boy, new year, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3027:374`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:7:26 # text = There was great mourning throughout all the isles, and the boy and his father mourned her bitterly also; but before the new year came the king had married another wife, and seemed to have forgotten his old one. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 mourning mourning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 throughout throughout ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 isles isle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 mourned mourn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 31 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 37 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux _ _ 38 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 xcomp _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | great mourning throughout all isles | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mourn** | past | the boy and boy's father | mourning | | | | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 3 | **come** | past | the new year | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **marry** | past · perfect | the king | another wife | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | | 5 | **seem** | past | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **forget** | to-infinitive · perfect | the king *not said here* | boy's old one | | | | | tree rules | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/27/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/)