The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 101

The Duchess was so delighted at the idea that Graciosa was really ill, that she herself recovered twice as fast as she would have done otherwise, and the wedding was held with great magnificence.

Who acts: Duchess, Graciosa · What happens: be, recover, do, hold · To what, where: idea, wedding

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess, Graciosa), 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 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 delighted	advmod
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 idea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 idea	det
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delighted	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 ill	mark
10	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ill	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 ill	advmod
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 recovered	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 recovered	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 recovered	nsubj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 she	conj
18	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	conj
19	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 fast	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 recovered	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fast	advcl
27	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	26 done	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 held	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 held	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wedding	det
31	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 held	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 held	aux:pass
33	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 delighted	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 magnificence	case
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 magnificence	amod
36	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 held	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Duchess		the idea	delighted property	tree rules
2	is	past	Graciosa	the idea not said here		ill property	tree rules
3	recover	past	duchess			fast property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	do	would · perfect	duchess			otherwise property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold	past · passive		the wedding		with great magnificence	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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