The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 51
Great was the king’s surprise and happiness when he beheld his lost wife stand before him, and in gratitude to her rescuer he loaded him with gifts.
Who acts: Great surprise, skin · What happens: be, behold, lose, load · To what, where: Great surprise, lost wife stand, king, gratitude
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great surprise, skin), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 surprise | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprise | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beheld | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happiness | cc |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprise | conj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 beheld | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beheld | nsubj |
| 11 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stand | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stand | compound |
| 15 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beheld | obj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beheld | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 loaded | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 loaded | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 gratitude | case |
| 21 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loaded | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 rescuer | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 rescuer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | rescuer | rescuer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gratitude | nmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 loaded | nsubj |
| 26 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 beheld | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 loaded | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 gifts | case |
| 29 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 loaded | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's Great surprise and happiness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | the king's Great surprise and happiness | skin's lost wife stand | before skin | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stand=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | load | past | skin | king | gratitude to woman's rescuer | with gifts | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with gift=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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