The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 37
They hurried as quickly as they could to the old King, who received them with joy and gladness.
Who acts: waves, old King · What happens: hurry, receive · To what, where: waves
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (waves, old King), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 quickly | advmod |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 hurried | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 could | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 could | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 King | amod |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hurried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 received | nsubj |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 King | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 received | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gladness | cc |
| 19 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joy | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | waves = wave | to the old King result; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to king=Result | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the old King | waves = wave | with joy and gladness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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