More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 2
His majesty did not much relish the operation, but he assented to the marvel of it, and the princess and Jack were united the same day, and lived for many years in happiness and prosperity.
Who acts: majesty, marvel · What happens: relish, assent, unite, live, marvel · To what, where: much, princess
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, marvel), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relish | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 relish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 relish | obj |
| 6 | relish | relish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 operation | det |
| 8 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relish | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 assented | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 assented | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 assented | nsubj |
| 12 | assented | assent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 relish | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 marvel | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 marvel | det |
| 15 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assented | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marvel | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 united | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 united | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 united | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Jack | cc |
| 23 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 princess | conj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 united | aux:pass |
| 25 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 assented | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 day | amod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 united | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lived | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lived | cc |
| 31 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 assented | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 years | case |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 years | amod |
| 34 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lived | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 happiness | case |
| 36 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 years | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 prosperity | cc |
| 38 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 happiness | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 relish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relish | past · do-support | king's majesty | much | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assent | past | majesty | to the marvel of marvel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | unite | past · passive | the princess and Jack | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | past | majesty not said here | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | marvel | marvel | nom marvel «event intransitive»: of=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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