The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 16
It thanked the Princess most heartily for her goodness, and said that its sufferings had already been greatly lessened.
Who acts: crew · What happens: thank, say, lessen, suffer · To what, where: Princess, sufferings · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crew), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 heartily | advmod |
| 6 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 2 thanked | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 goodness | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 lessened | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lessened | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lessened | aux |
| 17 | already | already | ADV | _ | 20 lessened | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 lessened | aux:pass |
| 19 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 20 lessened | advmod |
| 20 | lessened | lessen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | crew | the Princess | for Princess's goodness; heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent princess=Theme for goodness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | lessen | past · perfect · passive | crew's sufferings | greatly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | suffer | crew | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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