Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 10

It made the king glad to see the happy children, and hear their merry voices.

Who acts: grass, king · What happens: make, see, hear · To what, where: king, happy children, merry voices

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
13	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 voices	nmod:poss
15	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voices	amod
16	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hear	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	grass	the king	glad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material king=Product
2	see	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the happy children		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	hear	present	grass not said here	children's merry voices		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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