The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 102
The boat drove ashore below their father’s castle, and both princes were received with open arms by their father and mother, who had suffered great anxiety for them.
Who acts: boat, father · What happens: drive, receive, suffer · To what, where: castle, princes, great anxiety
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 3 drove | advmod |
| 5 | below | below | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 received | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 received | cc |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 princes | det |
| 13 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 received | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 received | aux:pass |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 drove | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 arms | amod |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 received | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 father | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mother | cc |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 father | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 suffered | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 suffered | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 suffered | aux |
| 27 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 father | acl:relcl |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 anxiety | amod |
| 29 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 suffered | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 anxiety | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the boat | princes's father's castle | ashore property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | princes's father and mother | both princes | with open arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | suffer | past · perfect | princes's father and mother | great anxiety | for princes = prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anxiety=Stimulus for they=Attribute |
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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