The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 39
All the town was rejoicing at the thought of the Princess’s approaching freedom, and when the news came that King Merlin was sending his ambassador to ask her in marriage for his son, they were still more delighted.
Who acts: town, news, King Merlin, King · What happens: rejoice, approach, come, send, ask, be · To what, where: thought, ambassador, Princess, marriage, approaching freedom
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (town, news, King Merlin, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 town | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoicing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rejoicing | aux |
| 5 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 thought | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoicing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 freedom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 13 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 freedom | amod |
| 14 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 delighted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 delighted | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 news | det |
| 19 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 delighted | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 sending | mark |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Merlin | compound |
| 23 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sending | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sending | aux |
| 25 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 came | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ambassador | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sending | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 ask | mark |
| 29 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sending | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ask | iobj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 marriage | case |
| 32 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ask | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 son | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ask | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 delighted | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 delighted | cop |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 41 delighted | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 delighted | advmod |
| 41 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rejoicing | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoicing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past · progressive | all town | the thought of the Princess's approaching freedom | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | past · progressive | King Merlin | Merlin's ambassador | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | King Merlin not said here | Princess | marriage | for Merlin's son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||
| 6 | is | past | King | still | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | think | the Princess's approaching freedom | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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