The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 14
Only the beautiful Princess rejoiced over Ferko’s success, and looked on him with friendly glances, which the youth returned.
Who acts: beautiful Princess, youth · What happens: rejoice, look, return · To what, where: success, friendly glances
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Princess, youth), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 rejoiced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 5 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 success | case |
| 7 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 success | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Ferko | case |
| 9 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoiced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rejoiced | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 glances | case |
| 16 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 glances | amod |
| 17 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 returned | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 returned | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youth | det |
| 21 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 returned | nsubj |
| 22 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 glances | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | the beautiful Princess | Ferko's success | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the beautiful Princess not said here | on Ferko; with friendly glances | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the youth | friendly glances | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 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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