The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 190

But when he had told her who he was, in her great joy she forgot all her sufferings, and they seemed as nothing to her.

Who acts: husband, Princess, sufferings · What happens: tell, be, forget, seem, suffer · To what, where: Princess, great joy, sufferings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, Princess, sufferings), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 seemed	parataxis
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 joy	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 joy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 joy	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joy	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 joy	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 joy	nmod:poss
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 joy	amod
14	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	ccomp
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forgot	nsubj
16	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 joy	acl:relcl
17	all	all	ADV	_	19 sufferings	advmod
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sufferings	nmod:poss
19	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forgot	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 nothing	case
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 seemed	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	husband		Princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	past				Princess's great joy		tree rules
3	forget	past	Princess	Princess's sufferings				tree rules
4	seem	past	sufferings = suffering		Princess		as nothing	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	suffer		Princess					nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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 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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