The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 125
He was given a hearty welcome by the king, who prided himself on his hospitality, and a banquet was commanded in his honour.
Who acts: king, Hans · What happens: give, pride, command, honour · To what, where: Hans, hospitality, banquet, honour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Hans), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 welcome | det |
| 5 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 welcome | compound |
| 6 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prided | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prided | nsubj |
| 12 | prided | pride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 prided | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hospitality | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prided | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 commanded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 commanded | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 banquet | det |
| 20 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 commanded | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 commanded | aux:pass |
| 22 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 honour | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 honour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 commanded | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the king | Hans | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient welcome=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pride | past | the king | Hans | Hans's hospitality | tree rules | |||
| 3 | command | past · passive | a banquet | Hans's honour | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: subject=Theme in honour=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | honour | Hans | nom honour «state 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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