The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 41
When the youth returned to the palace the King was both happy and delighted to get his daughter back again, as may easily be believed, but somehow or other the people about the Court had so worked on him that he was angry with the lad too.
Who acts: youth, King, people · What happens: return, be, get, believe, work · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, King, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 happy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happy | cop |
| 11 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc:preconj |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 returned | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delighted | cc |
| 14 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 happy | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 delighted | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 believed | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 believed | mark |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 believed | aux |
| 24 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 26 believed | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 believed | aux:pass |
| 26 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 happy | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 somehow | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 somehow | cc |
| 29 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 26 believed | advmod |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 other | cc |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 somehow | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 people | det |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 worked | nsubj |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 Court | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Court | det |
| 36 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 people | nmod |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 worked | aux |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 worked | advmod |
| 39 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 somehow | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 worked | obl |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 angry | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 angry | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 angry | cop |
| 45 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 worked | advcl |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 lad | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 lad | det |
| 48 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 angry | obl |
| 49 | too | too | ADV | _ | 48 lad | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the youth | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the King | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the King not said here | youth's daughter | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | believe | may · passive | easily, somehow property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 6 | work | past · perfect | the people about the Court | on youth | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | past | youth | with the lad; angry property | tree rules |
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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