The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 122
Great was their delight and astonishment when the Prince entered, leading the beautiful maiden by the hand.
Who acts: Great delight · What happens: be, enter, lead · To what, where: Great delight, beautiful maiden
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great delight), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 delight | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delight | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 delight | nmod:poss |
| 4 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 astonishment | cc |
| 6 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delight | conj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 entered | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leading | punct |
| 12 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 entered | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | maidens's Great delight and astonishment | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | maidens's Great delight and astonishment | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | maidens's Great delight and astonishment not said here | the beautiful maiden | by the hand | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme by hand=Destination |
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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