The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 43
At last they entered the palace gates, and the king's heart bounded with joy at beholding his beloved Princess Bella-Flor.
Who acts: meshes, heart · What happens: enter, bound, behold · To what, where: palace gates, last, beloved Princess
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meshes, heart), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 entered | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gates | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gates | compound |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 entered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bounded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bounded | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bounded | nsubj |
| 14 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 entered | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bounded | obl |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 beholding | mark |
| 18 | beholding | behold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 bounded | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 20 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Princess | amod |
| 21 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beholding | obj |
| 22 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Princess | appos |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Flor | punct |
| 24 | Flor | Flor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bella | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | meshes = mesh | the palace gates | last | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination | |||
| 2 | bound | participle | the king's heart | with joy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | behold | gerund | the king's heart not said here | heart's beloved Princess | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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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