The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 64
And the hale o’ the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance, which they all acknowledged to be owing to the prudent young man.
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: overjoy, acknowledge, owe, deliver · To what, where: hale o, deliverance, prudent young man
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 overjoyed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 o | det |
| 3 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 o | amod |
| 4 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 o | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prisoners | det |
| 7 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 9 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 deliverance | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overjoyed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 acknowledged | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 acknowledged | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 acknowledged | advmod |
| 17 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 deliverance | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 owing | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 owing | aux |
| 20 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 acknowledged | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 23 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 owing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the hale o | prisoners's deliverance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | acknowledge | past | prisoners = prisoner | prisoners's deliverance | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | owe | to-infinitive · progressive | prisoners = prisoner not said here | the prudent young man | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to man=Goal | ||||
| 4 | deliver | prisoners = prisoner | nom deliverance «act transitive»: 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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