The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 104
Ah! how happy she was when she knew that the days of her punishment were over; and with a glad voice she told the prince the tale of her enchantment.
Who acts: sun, days, enchantment · What happens: be, know, tell, punish, enchant · To what, where: tale, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, days, enchantment), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 happy | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | ccomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 knew | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 over | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 over | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 punishment | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 15 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 days | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 over | cop |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 22 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 voice | amod |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happy | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tale | det |
| 29 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 enchantment | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 enchantment | nmod:poss |
| 32 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tale | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | sun | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the days of sun's punishment | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | sun | the tale of sun's enchantment | the prince | with a glad voice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient tale=Topic | ||
| 5 | punish | sun | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | tell | sun's enchantment | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | enchant | sun | 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 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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