The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 57
How delighted they were to meet again, and to hear all that the prince had done to deliver them from their enchantment.
Who acts: brothers, prince · What happens: meet, hear, do, deliver, enchant · To what, where: brothers, enchantment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, prince), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delighted | advmod |
| 2 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meet | advcl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 meet | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 meet | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 meet | mark |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 meet | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hear | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 meet | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 done | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 hear | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 deliver | mark |
| 19 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 deliver | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 enchantment | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 enchantment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deliver | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | brothers = brother | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | deliver | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | brothers = brother | brothers's enchantment | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from enchantment=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | enchant | brothers = brother | nom enchantment «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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