The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 9
And fancy their delight when one evening the king returned home from hunting and saw a baby lying in the cradle.
Who acts: you, king, baby · What happens: fancy, return, see, lie, delight · To what, where: delight, hunting, baby, cradle
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, baby), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 fancy | cc |
| 2 | fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 delight | nmod:poss |
| 4 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fancy | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 returned | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 evening | nummod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fancy | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hunting | case |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 baby | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 baby | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cradle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cradle | det |
| 21 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | imperative | you not said here | king's delight | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer delight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the king | hunting | evening | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | see | past | the king not said here | a baby | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | a baby not said here | the cradle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location | ||||
| 5 | delight | king | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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