The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 95
And when the king and queen and princess saw the young man a great joy filled their hearts, for they knew him for the eldest son, who had long ago been enchanted by a giant and lost to them.
Who acts: king, great joy, people · What happens: see, fill, know, enchant, lose · To what, where: young man, hearts, king, eldest son, people
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, great joy, people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 queen | cc |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 princess | cc |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 joy | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 joy | amod |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | nsubj |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 filled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 knew | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 son | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 son | det |
| 26 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 son | amod |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knew | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 enchanted | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 enchanted | aux |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 enchanted | advmod |
| 32 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 34 enchanted | advmod |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 34 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 son | acl:relcl |
| 35 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 37 giant | mark |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 giant | det |
| 37 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 enchanted | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 lost | cc |
| 39 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 giant | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lost | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king and queen and princess | the young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | a great joy | people's hearts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | past | people | king | for the eldest son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | enchant | past · perfect · passive | the eldest son | ago, giant, long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | lose | participle | people | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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