--- title: His first wife, a good and beautiful woman, died at the birth of her… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His first wife, a good and beautiful woman, died at the birth of her little son, and the King her husband was so overwhelmed with grief at her loss that his only comfort was in the sight of his heir. Who acts: first wife, overwhelmed loss, King. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first wife, overwhelmed loss, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:22:67 # text = His first wife, a good and beautiful woman, died at the birth of her little son, and the King her husband was so overwhelmed with grief at her loss that his only comfort was in the sight of his heir. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 overwhelmed overwhelm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 acl:relcl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 heir heir NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | King's first wife | overwhelmed loss | | the birth of wife's little son | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **overwhelm** | past · passive | | the King wife's husband | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | overwhelmed loss | | | the sight | | of King's heir | tree rules | | 4 | **comfort** | | King | | | | | | nom comfort «state 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/68/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)