The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 76
About this time he got permission to go home and see his sister, and when he saw how lovely and beautiful she was, he was so pleased and delighted that when he came back to the king’s palace everyone there wanted to know what he was always so happy about.
Who acts: stepson, world, everyone, palace · What happens: get, go, see, be, come back, want · To what, where: permission, sister, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepson, world, everyone, palace), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 permission | acl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 lovely | advmod |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | cc |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lovely | conj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lovely | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lovely | cop |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pleased | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pleased | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 pleased | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 pleased | advmod |
| 29 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 delighted | cc |
| 31 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pleased | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 came | mark |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 came | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 pleased | advcl |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 came | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 palace | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 king | case |
| 41 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 42 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 44 wanted | nsubj |
| 43 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 wanted | advmod |
| 44 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 palace | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 know | mark |
| 46 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 wanted | xcomp |
| 47 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 52 happy | nsubj |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 happy | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 happy | cop |
| 50 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 52 happy | advmod |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 happy | advmod |
| 52 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 know | ccomp |
| 53 | about | about | ADP | _ | 52 happy | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | stepson | permission | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer permission=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | stepson not said here | permission not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | infinitive | stepson not said here | stepson's sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | stepson | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | world | lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | world not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | stepson | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | stepson not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | come back | past | stepson | the king's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | want | past | everyone | the king's palace not said here | there | tree rules | |||
| 11 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king's palace not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 12 | is | past | always, happy 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 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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