The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 23
The King was delighted to receive so good an offer for his unlucky daughter, though, to tell the truth, he found it impossible to admire the Prince’s portrait which had been sent to him.
Who acts: King, truth, Prince · What happens: be, receive, tell, find, admire, send · To what, where: good offer, truth, portrait, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (King, truth, Prince), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 receive | mark |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 offer | amod |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 offer | det |
| 10 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 16 | though | though | ADV | _ | 19 tell | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 truth | det |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 found | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 admire | mark |
| 28 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 impossible | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Prince | det |
| 30 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Prince | case |
| 32 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 admire | obj |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 sent | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 sent | aux:pass |
| 36 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 portrait | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sent | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the King not said here | a good offer | for King's unlucky daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the truth | though property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | |||
| 4 | find | past | King | truth | impossible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 5 | admire | to-infinitive | truth not said here | the Prince's portrait | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | send | past · perfect · passive | the Prince's portrait | prince | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 7 | portray | the Prince | nom portrait «communication 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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