The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 54

Peridor was rejoiced to embrace his wife and his son once more, and with the help of the fairies began to make preparations for the marriage of Saphir and Serpentine, who turned out to be the daughter of Aglantine and Diamantino, and as much a princess as he was a prince.

Who acts: marriage, Peridor · What happens: rejoice, embrace, begin, make, turn out, be · To what, where: Peridor, wife, much, preparations, daughter, fairies

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, Peridor), 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	Peridor	Peridor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rejoiced	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rejoiced	aux:pass
3	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 embrace	mark
5	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rejoiced	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 embrace	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 son	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	conj
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 embrace	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 help	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 help	det
17	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fairies	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fairies	det
20	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 help	nmod
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rejoiced	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 make	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 marriage	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 marriage	det
27	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 preparations	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Saphir	case
29	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 marriage	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Serpentine	cc
31	Serpentine	Serpentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Saphir	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turned	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 turned	nsubj
34	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 marriage	acl:relcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 turned	compound:prt
36	to	to	PART	_	39 daughter	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 daughter	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 daughter	det
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	xcomp
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Aglantine	case
41	Aglantine	Aglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 daughter	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 Diamantino	cc
43	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Aglantine	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 much	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 much	cc
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 much	advmod
47	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 began	obl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 princess	det
49	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 much	nsubj
50	as	as	ADP	_	54 prince	case
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 prince	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 prince	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 prince	det
54	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 much	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past · passive		Peridor		tree rules
2	embrace	to-infinitive		Peridor's wife and Peridor's son		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent
3	begin	past		much	with the help of the fairies	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive		preparations	for the marriage of Saphir and Serpentine	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for marriage=Asset
5	turn out	past	the marriage of Saphir and Serpentine			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	the marriage of Saphir and Serpentine not said here	the daughter	of Aglantine and Diamantino	tree rules
7	is	past	Peridor		as a prince	tree rules
8	help			the fairies		nom help «act transitive»: of=patient
9	marry			Saphir and Serpentine		nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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