The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 257
The King and the Princess were so happy that they freely forgave them, and as for the good old man he was splendidly rewarded, and spent the rest of his days in the palace.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, forgive, reward, spend · To what, where: Messengers, nurse, rest, palace
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 (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Princess | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 forgave | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgave | nsubj |
| 11 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 12 forgave | advmod |
| 12 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rewarded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rewarded | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 man | case |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rewarded | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rewarded | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 24 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 25 rewarded | advmod |
| 25 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 happy | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spent | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 spent | cc |
| 28 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rest | det |
| 30 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spent | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 days | nmod:poss |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rest | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 palace | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 palace | det |
| 36 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spent | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King and the Princess | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forgive | past | King | Messengers = messenger | freely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | reward | past · passive | nurse | as the good old man; splendidly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as man=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | spend | past | the King and the Princess not said here | the rest of nurse's days | the palace | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |
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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