The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 99
The queen rode happy home to the hut, and happier still was the man, who had been sitting there in great anxiety, for now he was freed from all the power of the evil spirits.
Who acts: queen, happier man · What happens: ride, be, sit, free · To what, where: happy home, hut, happier man, great anxiety, man, power
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 (queen, happier man), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 home | amod |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 man | cc |
| 11 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 man | amod |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 man | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sitting | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sitting | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 sitting | aux |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 sitting | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 anxiety | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 anxiety | amod |
| 24 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sitting | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 freed | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 now | case |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 freed | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 freed | aux:pass |
| 30 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rode | parataxis |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 power | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 power | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 power | det |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 freed | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 spirits | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 spirits | det |
| 37 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 spirits | amod |
| 38 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 power | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the queen | happy home | the hut | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme to hut=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the happier man | still | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · perfect · progressive | the happier man | great anxiety; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in anxiety=Location | ||||
| 4 | free | past · passive | man | all power of the evil spirits | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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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