The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 1
He was very kindly received, for he was extremely good-looking and had charming manners, so he lost no time in asking for her hand and her parents gave her to him with joy.
Who acts: he, time, parents · What happens: receive, look, have, charm, lose, ask · To what, where: He, manners, her
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, time, parents), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 kindly | advmod |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 5 received | advmod |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 looking | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looking | aux |
| 10 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looking | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 received | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looking | conj |
| 16 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 had | xcomp |
| 17 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 charming | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 lost | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lost | obj |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 asking | mark |
| 25 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 time | acl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asking | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gave | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 parents | nmod:poss |
| 31 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | iobj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 joy | case |
| 37 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | He | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | he | extremely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | charm | gerund | he not said here | manners | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus manners=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | lose | past | he | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | no time not said here | for her hand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | give | past | her parents | her = she | to him = he; with joy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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