The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 41
King Alphege lost no time in marrying his dear and lovely Zayda, and his joy was complete when the Good Queen appeared at his wedding.
Who acts: King, time, joy, Good Queen · What happens: lose, marry, be, appear, joy, wed · To what, where: dear Zayda, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (King, time, joy, Good Queen), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | Alphege | Alphege | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 marrying | mark |
| 7 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Zayda | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Zayda | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lovely | cc |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dear | conj |
| 12 | Zayda | Zayda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 marrying | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 complete | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 complete | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 joy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 complete | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 complete | cop |
| 18 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 appeared | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Queen | det |
| 21 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Queen | amod |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 appeared | nsubj |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 complete | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 wedding | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appeared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | King | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | marry | gerund | no time not said here | King's dear Zayda | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zayda=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | King's joy | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | the Good Queen | King's wedding | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wedding=Location | ||||
| 5 | joy | King | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | wed | King | nom wedding «event transitive»: 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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