The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 93
The King rejoiced greatly when he heard she was innocent, and they all lived happily ever afterwards.
Who acts: King, sound, sister · What happens: rejoice, hear, be, live · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sound, sister), 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 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | advcl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 innocent | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 innocent | cop |
| 10 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 lived | advmod |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 16 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 afterwards | advmod |
| 18 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | hear | past | sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sister | innocent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | past | King | afterwards, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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