The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 4

He found them both sitting hand in hand on the step in front of the altar, and immediately knew his daughter again, and took her in his arms, thanking God and her deliverer.

Who acts: king, both · What happens: find, sit, know, take, thank · To what, where: princess, hand, daughter, person, arms, God · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, both), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sitting	nsubj
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 found	ccomp
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 step	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 step	det
11	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 front	case
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 step	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 altar	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 altar	det
16	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 front	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knew	cc
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	20 knew	advmod
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knew	obj
23	again	again	ADV	_	20 knew	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 arms	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arms	nmod:poss
30	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 took	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thanking	punct
32	thanking	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 took	advcl
33	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 thanking	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 deliverer	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 deliverer	nmod:poss
36	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 God	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	king	princess					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
2	sit	gerund	both	hand		hand		on the step in front of the altar	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Location
3	know	past		king's daughter			again	immediately property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
4	take	past	king not said here	person		king's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location
5	thank speech: thank	gerund	king not said here		God and person's deliverer				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=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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