The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 49

The King rejoiced greatly to see his old enemies destroyed by so small a creature, and the Queen was highly pleased, and desired the cat might be brought near that she might look at her.

Who acts: King, Queen, cat · What happens: rejoice, see, destroy, be, desire, bring · To what, where: old enemies, cat

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Queen, cat), 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	3 rejoiced	nsubj
3	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	3 rejoiced	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rejoiced	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 enemies	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 enemies	amod
9	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
10	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 enemies	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 creature	case
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 small	advmod
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 creature	amod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 creature	det
15	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 destroyed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pleased	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pleased	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Queen	det
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 pleased	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	cop
21	highly	highly	ADV	_	22 pleased	advmod
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rejoiced	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 desired	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 desired	cc
25	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rejoiced	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cat	det
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	nsubj:pass
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 brought	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 brought	aux:pass
30	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 desired	ccomp
31	near	near	ADP	_	35 look	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 look	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 look	aux
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 brought	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past	the King		greatly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King's old enemies		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enemy=Stimulus
3	destroy	participle		King's old enemies not said here	by a small creature	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the Queen		highly, pleased property	tree rules
5	desire	past				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	bring	might · passive		the cat		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
7	look	might	cat		at Queen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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