The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 90
The king and queen wished for nothing better than that their daughter marry into such a great and powerful family, and received the ambassador with every sign of welcome.
Who acts: daughter, king · What happens: wish, marry, receive, sign · To what, where: king, great family, ambassador, welcome
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 (daughter, king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 received | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 queen | cc |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 wished | obl |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 nothing | amod |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | nsubj |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 better | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 family | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 family | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 family | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 powerful | cc |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 great | conj |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 received | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 received | cc |
| 23 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ambassador | det |
| 25 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 received | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 sign | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 sign | det |
| 28 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 received | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 welcome | case |
| 30 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sign | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | participle | the king and queen not said here | for nothing | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | king's daughter | such great family | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | the king and queen | the ambassador | with every sign of welcome | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme | |||
| 4 | sign | welcome | nom sign «communication 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 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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