The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 160
While she was speaking, they found themselves in Suliman’s hall, and his delight was great at seeing his dear master once more.
Who acts: fairy, children, delight, Suliman · What happens: speak, find, be, see, delight · To what, where: children, hall, dear master · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fairy, children, delight, Suliman), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 speaking | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 10 | Suliman | Suliman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hall | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Suliman | case |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 great | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 great | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 delight | nmod:poss |
| 16 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 great | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 great | cop |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 found | conj |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 20 seeing | mark |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 great | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 master | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 master | amod |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seeing | obj |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 seeing | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | fairy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | children = child | children = child | Suliman's hall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | Suliman's delight | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | Suliman's delight not said here | Suliman's dear master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | delight | Suliman | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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