The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 21

Soon after that they arrived at the house of the King of the Snakes, who burst into tears of joy at the sight of his daughter, as he had given her up for dead.

Who acts: grass, Snakes · What happens: arrive, burst, give up, sight · To what, where: house, tears, snake, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, Snakes), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 arrived	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Soon	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Snakes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Snakes	det
14	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 house	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burst	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 burst	nsubj
17	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Snakes	acl:relcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 tears	case
19	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 burst	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 joy	case
21	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tears	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 sight	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sight	det
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burst	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 daughter	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sight	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 given	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 burst	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 given	compound:prt
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 dead	case
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 given	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	grass		the house of the King of the Snakes	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burst	past	the Snakes		tears of joy	at the sight of snake's daughter	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location
3	give up	past · perfect · passive		snake		for dead	tree rules
4	sight			snake's daughter			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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