The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 66

Lagree, on her return, soon found out the neglect, and seemed only too pleased to have the opportunity of showing her spite to her lovely prisoner.

Who acts: return, Lagree, opportunity · What happens: find out, seem, have, show, return, spite · To what, where: neglect, opportunity, spite, lovely prisoner

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 (return, Lagree, opportunity), 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	Lagree	Lagree	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 return	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 return	nmod:poss
5	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lagree	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 return	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 found	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 neglect	det
11	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 pleased	advmod
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 pleased	advmod
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pleased	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 opportunity	det
21	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 showing	mark
23	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 opportunity	acl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 spite	nmod:poss
25	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showing	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 prisoner	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 prisoner	nmod:poss
28	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 prisoner	amod
29	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showing	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find out	participle	Lagree's return not said here	the neglect		soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neglect=Topic
2	seem	past	Lagree			pleased property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive	Lagree not said here	the opportunity			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
4	show	gerund	the opportunity not said here	Lagree's spite	Lagree's lovely prisoner		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spite=Topic to prisoner=Recipient
5	return		Lagree				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	spite		Lagree				nom spite «feeling 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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