The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 103
In spite of the pitiable condition in which he returned they received him joyfully.
Who acts: son, winds · What happens: return, receive, spite · To what, where: pitiable condition, son, spite
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, winds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 condition | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 condition | det |
| 5 | pitiable | pitiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 condition | amod |
| 6 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 returned | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 condition | acl:relcl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 received | nsubj |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 received | obj |
| 14 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 12 received | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | son | the pitiable condition | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | winds = wind | son | spite of the pitiable condition | joyfully property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in spite=Location | ||
| 3 | spite | the pitiable condition | nom spite «feeling 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/103/