The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 103
This noble lord had just been crowned, and the deliverance of the kingdom was the cause of the rejoicing.
Who acts: deliverance · What happens: crown, be, deliver · To what, where: noble lord, cause, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deliverance), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 lord | det |
| 2 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crowned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crowned | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 crowned | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 crowned | aux:pass |
| 7 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cause | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cause | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 deliverance | det |
| 11 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cause | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deliverance | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cause | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cause | det |
| 17 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crowned | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rejoicing | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rejoicing | det |
| 20 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cause | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | past · perfect · passive | this noble lord | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the deliverance of the kingdom | the cause | of the rejoicing | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deliver | the kingdom | nom deliverance «act 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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