The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 78
The king’s joy at receiving back his lost daughter was so great that he almost fainted, but when he recovered himself he made the young man tell him how everything had really happened.
Who acts: joy, youth, young man, everything, king · What happens: receive back, lose, be, faint, recover, make · To what, where: lost daughter, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, youth, young man, everything), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 great | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 receiving | mark |
| 6 | receiving | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 joy | acl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 receiving | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receiving | obj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 great | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 great | advmod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 fainted | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fainted | nsubj |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 17 fainted | advmod |
| 17 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 great | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 recovered | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 recovered | nsubj |
| 22 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | advcl |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 recovered | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 great | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tell | nsubj |
| 29 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | ccomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tell | iobj |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 happened | advmod |
| 32 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 happened | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 happened | aux |
| 34 | really | really | ADV | _ | 35 happened | advmod |
| 35 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 tell | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive back | gerund | the king's joy not said here | youth's lost daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the king's joy | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | faint | past | youth | almost property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | recover | past | youth | youth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | past | youth | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the young man | youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | happen | past · perfect | everything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | joy | the king | nom joy «feeling 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 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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