The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 38

He wished himself at home, and instantly found himself there; but his parents were so amazed at the splendour of his apparel that their wonder never ceased.

Who acts: father, wonder, parents · What happens: wish, find, not cease, wonder · To what, where: father, home

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wonder, parents), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wished	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
8	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	9 found	advmod
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 found	obj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 found	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 amazed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 amazed	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 parents	nmod:poss
15	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 amazed	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 amazed	aux:pass
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 amazed	advmod
18	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wished	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 splendour	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 splendour	det
21	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 amazed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 apparel	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 apparel	nmod:poss
24	apparel	apparel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 splendour	nmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 ceased	mark
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wonder	nmod:poss
27	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ceased	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 ceased	advmod
29	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 amazed	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	father	father	home		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
2	find	past		father	there	instantly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	not cease	past	parents's wonder				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	wonder		parents = parent				nom wonder «feeling transitive»: 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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