The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 113
When he returned to the marriage-feast with the seven princes, the King was so joyful that he both kissed Cinderlad and clapped him on the back, and his bride was still more delighted with him than she had been before.
Who acts: bridegroom, King, bride · What happens: return, be, kiss, clap · To what, where: Cinderlad, bridegroom, back
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom, King, bride), 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 | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 feast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 6 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feast | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 marriage | punct |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 princes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princes | det |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 princes | nummod |
| 12 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feast | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 joyful | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 joyful | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 joyful | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 joyful | advmod |
| 18 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 princes | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 kissed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kissed | nsubj |
| 21 | both | both | ADV | _ | 22 kissed | advmod |
| 22 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 joyful | advcl |
| 23 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kissed | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 clapped | cc |
| 25 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kissed | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 clapped | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 back | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 back | det |
| 29 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clapped | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 delighted | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 delighted | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 bride | nmod:poss |
| 33 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 delighted | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 delighted | cop |
| 35 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 more | advmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 delighted | advmod |
| 37 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 returned | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 delighted | obl |
| 40 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 44 before | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 before | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 before | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 before | cop |
| 44 | before | before | ADV | _ | 37 delighted | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | bridegroom | to the marriage feast with the seven princes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to feast=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the King | joyful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | bridegroom | Cinderlad | both property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinderlad=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | clap | past | bridegroom not said here | bridegroom | the back | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | bridegroom's bride | with bridegroom; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past · perfect | bride | before 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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