The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 44
She thereupon told him the whole story; and so the King’s son fell in love with her, and, considering himself that such a gift was worth more than any marriage portion, conducted her to the palace of the King his father, and there married her.
Who acts: mother, son, gift · What happens: tell, fall, consider, be, conduct, marry · To what, where: whole story, son, love, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, son, gift), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fell | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 considering | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 considering | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 considering | punct |
| 23 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 fell | advcl |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 considering | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 worth | mark |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 gift | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 gift | det |
| 28 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 worth | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 worth | cop |
| 30 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 considering | ccomp |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 worth | obj |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 portion | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 portion | det |
| 34 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 portion | compound |
| 35 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 more | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 conducted | punct |
| 37 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 conducted | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 palace | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 palace | det |
| 41 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 conducted | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 King | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 King | det |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 palace | nmod |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 father | nmod:poss |
| 46 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 conducted | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 married | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 married | cc |
| 49 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 married | advmod |
| 50 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 married | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | mother | the whole story | son | thereupon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 2 | fall | past | the King's son | love | with mother | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 3 | consider | gerund | the King's son not said here | son | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | past | such gift | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | conduct | past | the King's son not said here | mother | to the palace of the King | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme father=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | marry | past | the King's son not said here | mother | there | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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