The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 96
The princess was too happy in her new home to remember all that she had suffered in the old one, and she welcomed them both gladly, and gave them quantities of beautiful things to take back with them.
Who acts: princess, woman · What happens: be, remember, suffer, welcome, give, take back · To what, where: new home, daughter, quantities · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, woman), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 home | amod |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happy | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 remember | mark |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 suffered | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 suffered | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 suffered | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 suffered | aux |
| 16 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 remember | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suffered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 welcomed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 welcomed | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 welcomed | nsubj |
| 24 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 welcomed | obj |
| 26 | both | both | ADV | _ | 27 gladly | advmod |
| 27 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 24 welcomed | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gave | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gave | cc |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | parataxis |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | iobj |
| 32 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gave | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 things | case |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 things | amod |
| 35 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 quantities | nmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 take | mark |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 gave | advcl |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 take | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 take | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | woman's new home | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past · perfect | woman | in the old one | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | welcome | past | woman | daughter | gladly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | past | quantities of beautiful things | daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient quantity=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take back | to-infinitive | with daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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