The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 65
The maiden proved a good wife, and the king’s son, now himself a king, was so happy that he forgot all about the giant.
Who acts: maiden, son · What happens: prove, king, be, forget · To what, where: good wife, giant
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, son), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | nsubj |
| 3 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 son | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 king | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 king | advmod |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 king | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 happy | advmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 proved | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 forgot | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forgot | nsubj |
| 24 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | advcl |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 giant | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 giant | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 giant | det |
| 28 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forgot | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | the maiden | a good wife | the king's son obl | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 2 | king | son | now | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forget | past | son | the giant | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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