The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 51

Of course both the king and queen were delighted, and the child was called Desiree, which means 'desired,' for she had been 'desired' for five years before her birth.

Who acts: Desiree · What happens: be, call, mean, desire · To what, where: child, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiree), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	5 king	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	5 king	cc:preconj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 delighted	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 queen	cc
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 delighted	cop
9	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 delighted	advcl
16	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 means	nsubj
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Desiree	acl:relcl
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 desired	punct
21	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 means	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 desired	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 desired	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 desired	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 desired	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 desired	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 desired	aux:pass
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 desired	punct
29	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 desired	advcl
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 desired	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 years	case
32	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 desired	obl
34	before	before	ADP	_	36 birth	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 birth	nmod:poss
36	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 desired	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				of the king and queen; delighted property	tree rules
2	call	past · passive		the child			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	mean	present	Desiree				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	desire	participle					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	desire	past · perfect · passive		queen	before queen's birth; year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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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