The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 2
Their Majesties were overjoyed at the news, and the King sent for a great book, each leaf of which was eight ells long.
Who acts: King · What happens: overjoy, send, be · To what, where: Majesties, news
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesties | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesties | majesty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 book | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 book | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 book | amod |
| 16 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaf | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 leaf | det |
| 19 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 book | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 long | obl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 long | cop |
| 23 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ells | nummod |
| 24 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 long | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaf | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | Princess's Majesties | the news | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the King | for a great book and each leaf | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | of each leaf; eight ells obl:unmarked; long 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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