The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 28
The King and all the courtiers could not conceal their joy and astonishment, and the marriage of the three Princes was celebrated at once.
Who acts: King, courtiers · What happens: not conceal, celebrate, joy, marry · To what, where: joy, marriage, three Princes
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, courtiers), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 conceal | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 courtiers | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 courtiers | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtiers | det |
| 6 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | conj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 conceal | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 conceal | advmod |
| 9 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 joy | nmod:poss |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conceal | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 astonishment | cc |
| 13 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joy | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 celebrated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 celebrated | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 marriage | det |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Princes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princes | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Princes | nummod |
| 21 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 marriage | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 23 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 conceal | parataxis |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 celebrated | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conceal | could | the King and all courtiers | courtiers's joy and astonishment | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | the marriage of the three Princes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | joy | courtiers = courtier | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | marry | the three Princes | nom marriage «state 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.
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