The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 30
He thanked her for having saved him from his enchantment, and told her that he was the king and queen’s eldest son, and heir to the kingdom.
Who acts: sun · What happens: thank, save, tell, be, enchant · To what, where: lindorm, sun, enchantment, heir, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 saved | mark |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saved | aux |
| 6 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thanked | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saved | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 enchantment | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 enchantment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 king | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 king | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 king | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 son | cc |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 queen | case |
| 23 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 son | amod |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 king | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 heir | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 heir | cc |
| 27 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 kingdom | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kingdom | det |
| 30 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heir | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | sun | lindorm | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | gerund · perfect | sun not said here | sun | sun's enchantment | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from enchantment=Source | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | sun not said here | heir to the kingdom | lindorm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | sun | the king and queen's eldest son | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enchant | sun | nom enchantment «feeling 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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