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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 42

He was now full of joy, for his blind father would now recover his sight, while he himself owned the world’s most beautiful princess and the horse with the golden shoes.

Who acts: prince, blind father · What happens: be, recover, own, sight · To what, where: sight, beautiful princess

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, blind father), 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

nsubjcopadvmodcaseoblpunctmarknmod:possamodnsubjauxadvmodconjnmod:possobjpunctmarknsubjnmod:unmarkedadvcldetnmod:posscaseadvmodamodobjccdetconjcasedetamodoblpunctrootHePRONwasAUXnowADVfullADJofADPjoyNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJhisPRONblindADJfatherNOUNwouldAUXnowADVrecoverVERBhisPRONsightNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJhePRONhimselfPRONownedVERBtheDETworldNOUN’sPARTmostADVbeautifulADJprincessNOUNandCCONJtheDEThorseNOUNwithADPtheDETgoldenADJshoesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 fullnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 fullcop
3nownowADVPronType=Dem4 fulladvmod
4fullfullADJDegree=Posrootroot
5ofofADP_6 joycase
6joyjoyNOUNNumber=Sing4 fullobl
7,,PUNCT_14 recoverpunct
8forforSCONJ_14 recovermark
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 fathernmod:poss
10blindblindADJDegree=Pos11 fatheramod
11fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing14 recovernsubj
12wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin14 recoveraux
13nownowADVPronType=Dem14 recoveradvmod
14recoverrecoverVERBVerbForm=Inf4 fullconj
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 sightnmod:poss
16sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing14 recoverobj
17,,PUNCT_21 ownedpunct
18whilewhileSCONJ_21 ownedmark
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 ownednsubj
20himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes19 henmod:unmarked
21ownedownVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 recoveradvcl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 worlddet
23worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing27 princessnmod:poss
24’s'sPART_23 worldcase
25mostmostADVDegree=Sup26 beautifuladvmod
26beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos27 princessamod
27princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing21 ownedobj
28andandCCONJ_30 horsecc
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 horsedet
30horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing27 princessconj
31withwithADP_34 shoescase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 shoesdet
33goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos34 shoesamod
34shoesshoeNOUNNumber=Plur21 ownedobl
35..PUNCT_4 fullpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastprincenowof joy; full propertytree rules
2recoverwouldprince's blind fatherprince's sightnowvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3ownpastprincethe world's beautiful princess and the horsewith the golden shoesvn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme
4sightprincenom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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