The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 60
His Majesty, with the royal family and great officers of the Court, came out to receive me, and they entertained me in a manner suited to the generosity of so great a prince.
Who acts: Majesty, people · What happens: come out, receive, entertain, suit · To what, where: me, manner
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, people), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 family | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 family | amod |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Majesty | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 officers | cc |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 officers | amod |
| 10 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 family | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Court | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Court | det |
| 13 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 officers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Majesty | punct |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 receive | mark |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 came | xcomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 receive | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 entertained | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 entertained | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 entertained | nsubj |
| 23 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 entertained | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 manner | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 manner | det |
| 27 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entertained | obl |
| 28 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 manner | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 generosity | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 generosity | det |
| 31 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 suited | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 prince | case |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 great | advmod |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 prince | amod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 prince | det |
| 36 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 generosity | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | friend's Majesty | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | friend's Majesty not said here | me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | entertain | past | people | me | a manner | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | suit | participle | a manner not said here | to the generosity of a great prince | tree rules |
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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