The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 98
The King rejoiced greatly, but he kept the Queen in hiding till the Sunday on which the child was to be christened.
Who acts: King · What happens: rejoice, keep, christen · To what, where: Queen, hiding, child
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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), 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 | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 rejoiced | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hiding | case |
| 12 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 Sunday | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sunday | det |
| 15 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hiding | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 christened | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 christened | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 christened | aux |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 christened | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 christened | aux:pass |
| 23 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hiding | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | the King | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | King | the Queen | hiding till the Sunday | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in hiding=Location | |||
| 3 | christen | past · passive | King not said here | the child | hiding till the Sunday | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |
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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