The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 83
The King and the Prince were delighted to see that the King of the Peacocks was as handsome as possible.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, see · 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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:1074): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Prince | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 delighted | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 handsome | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 handsome | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Peacocks | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Peacocks | det |
| 15 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 King | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 handsome | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 handsome | advmod |
| 18 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 see | ccomp |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 possible | mark |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 handsome | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King and the Prince | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the King and the Prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the King of the Peacocks | handsome property | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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