The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 51
The queen was quite pleased at this idea, and again messenger was sent to Don Giovanni, offering him the hand of the eldest princess.
Who acts: queen · What happens: be, send, offer · To what, where: idea, messenger, Don, hand, king
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 idea | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 idea | det |
| 8 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 messenger | advmod |
| 12 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pleased | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Don | case |
| 16 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 17 | Giovanni | Giovanni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Don | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 offering | punct |
| 19 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sent | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 offering | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hand | det |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offering | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 princess | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 25 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 princess | amod |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hand | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen | this idea | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | messenger | Don | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to don=Destination | ||||
| 3 | offer | gerund | the hand of the eldest princess | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal hand=Theme |
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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