The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 94
The news of their coming spread very soon, and the king rejoiced greatly that the handsome young prince had come back again, and commanded great feasts to be prepared, for in a few days his daughter should marry the king’s son.
Who acts: news, handsome young prince, daughter · What happens: spread, rejoice, come back, command, be, marry · To what, where: thanks, great feasts, son · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (news, handsome young prince, daughter), 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 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoiced | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 spread | mark |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spread | aux:pass |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 news | acl:relcl |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 spread | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoiced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rejoiced | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 13 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 13 rejoiced | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prince | amod |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prince | amod |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 rejoiced | advcl |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 commanded | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 commanded | cc |
| 26 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rejoiced | conj |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 feasts | amod |
| 28 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 commanded | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 prepared | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 prepared | cop |
| 31 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 commanded | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 marry | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 days | det |
| 36 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 days | amod |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 marry | obl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 marry | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 marry | aux |
| 41 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 commanded | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 king | det |
| 43 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 son | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 king | case |
| 45 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 marry | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund · passive | the news not said here | thanks | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | rejoice | past | the news | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come back | past · perfect | the handsome young prince | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command | past | the news not said here | great feasts | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent feast=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | the news not said here | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | marry | should | prince's daughter | the king's son | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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