The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 89
The blind king was greatly rejoiced at his son’s resolve, fitted him out in the best way he could, and let him go.
Who acts: king · What happens: rejoice, fit out, let, go · To what, where: blind king, resolve, king, best way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | aux:pass |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 rejoiced | advmod |
| 6 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 resolve | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resolve | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 son | case |
| 11 | resolve | resolve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fitted | punct |
| 13 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fitted | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 fitted | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fitted | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 let | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 let | cc |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 let | obj |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 let | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past · passive | the blind king | king's son's resolve | greatly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fit out | past | king | the best way | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in way=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | king not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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