The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 65
The king gave him his daughter and kingdom as a reward for his aid, and when he heard that the prince was himself a king’s son his joy knew no bounds.
Who acts: king, two, prince, joy · What happens: give, hear, be, know, joy · To what, where: daughter, two, son, bounds
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, two, prince, joy), 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 | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kingdom | cc |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 reward | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 reward | det |
| 11 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 aid | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 aid | nmod:poss |
| 14 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reward | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 heard | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 himself | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 himself | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 himself | cop |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 heard | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 joy | nmod:poss |
| 30 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 knew | nsubj |
| 31 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | parataxis |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 bounds | det |
| 33 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 knew | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | two's daughter and kingdom | two | as a reward for two's aid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||
| 2 | hear | past | two | a king's son | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the prince | two | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | two's joy | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | joy | two | 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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