The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 81
The prince was delighted with this answer, which showed the goodness of the girl's heart, and besides he had fallen in love with her beauty, and would not be content till she promised to return with him to the palace, and become his bride.
Who acts: prince, answer, fury, horse · What happens: be, show, fall, not be, promise, return · To what, where: goodness, love, bride
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, answer, fury, horse), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 answer | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 showed | nsubj |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goodness | det |
| 12 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goodness | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fallen | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fallen | cc |
| 20 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 23 fallen | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fallen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fallen | aux |
| 23 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 showed | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fallen | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 beauty | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fallen | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 content | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 content | cc |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 content | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 content | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 content | cop |
| 34 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 delighted | conj |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 promised | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 promised | nsubj |
| 37 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 content | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 return | mark |
| 39 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 promised | xcomp |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 return | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 palace | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 palace | det |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 return | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 become | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 become | cc |
| 47 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 return | advcl |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 bride | nmod:poss |
| 49 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 become | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | with this answer; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | past | this answer | the goodness of the girl's heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodness=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | fury | love | with horse's beauty | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 4 | not is | would | the prince not said here | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | horse | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | horse not said here | with fury; to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 7 | become | infinitive | horse not said here | fury's bride | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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