The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 95
No one can tell how delighted the King was to get rid of that hideous Bushy Bride, and get a Queen who was bright and beautiful as day itself.
Who acts: one, King · What happens: tell, be, get · To what, where: delighted, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 get | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Bride | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Bride | nsubj |
| 15 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Bride | amod |
| 16 | Bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Bride | amod |
| 17 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Queen | det |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bright | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bright | cop |
| 25 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 get | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | cc |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bright | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bright | obl |
| 30 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 day | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | no one | delighted | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent delighted=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | past | the King | get, rid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | no one not said here | a Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | day | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | 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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