The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 81

So he joyfully returned to his father’s palace, where he found his friend the Fairy, who at once presented him with a magic pebble like his own.

Who acts: spite, Fairy · What happens: return, find, present · To what, where: friend, spite

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (spite, Fairy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 returned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 returned	nsubj
3	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	4 returned	advmod
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 palace	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 found	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fairy	det
17	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 presented	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 presented	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 presented	nsubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 presented	obl
22	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 presented	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 pebble	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pebble	det
26	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pebble	amod
27	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 presented	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 own	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 own	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pebble	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	spite			to spite's father's palace result; joyfully property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
2	find	past	spite	spite's friend			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic
3	present	past	the Fairy		spite	with a magic pebble like spite's own	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with pebble=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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