The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 106
When Rosette received the letter she was so delighted that she ran about telling everyone that the King of the Peacocks was found, and she was going to marry him.
Who acts: Rosette · What happens: receive, be, run, tell, find, go · To what, where: letter, everyone, King, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 received | advmod |
| 2 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 delighted | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delighted | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 delighted | advmod |
| 9 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 received | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ran | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delighted | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 14 telling | mark |
| 14 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ran | advcl |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 telling | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Peacocks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Peacocks | det |
| 21 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 King | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 telling | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 going | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 going | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 going | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 going | aux |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 received | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 marry | mark |
| 30 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 going | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 marry | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Rosette | the letter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Rosette | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Rosette | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Rosette not said here | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | the King of the Peacocks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | Rosette | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | marry | to-infinitive | Rosette not said here | Prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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