The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 5

King Grumpy was quite delighted to hear that his son was ill, for he thought that he would all the sooner be brought to do as he wished, and marry the Princess.

Who acts: Grumpy, son · What happens: be, hear, think, bring, do, wish · To what, where: Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grumpy, son), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Grumpy	nmod:desc
2	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	_	5 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 delighted	advmod
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 delighted	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 ill	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ill	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hear	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 would	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 would	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	ccomp
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 the	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 would	det
22	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 brought	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 brought	aux:pass
24	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 the	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 brought	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 wished	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wished	nsubj
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 do	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 marry	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 marry	cc
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 do	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 marry	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Grumpy King		delighted property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	Grumpy King not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	King's son		ill property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Grumpy			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bring	infinitive · passive			soon property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wish	past	Grumpy			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	marry	infinitive		the Princess		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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