The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 142
The young couple were as happy as the day was long, and the King was more and more pleased with himself for having secured such a son-in-law.
Who acts: young couple, day, King · What happens: be, secure · To what, where: law
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 (young couple, day, King), 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 | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 long | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 long | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | cop |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happy | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pleased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pleased | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pleased | cop |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 20 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 pleased | obl |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 secured | mark |
| 24 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 secured | aux |
| 25 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 pleased | advcl |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 law | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 law | det |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 law | nsubj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 law | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 law | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 in | punct |
| 32 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 secured | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young couple | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the day | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the King | with king; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | secure | gerund · perfect | the King not said here | such law | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition law=Theme |
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.
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