The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 133

But though he was as happy as the day was long, and as merry as a grig, the King’s daughter fretted all day, thinking of the indignity that had been done her in making her marry Martin, the poor widow’s son, instead of a rich young Prince from a foreign country.

Who acts: Martin, day, feast · What happens: be, fret, think, do, make, marry · To what, where: daughter, indignity, feast, Martin, foreign country

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, day, feast), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 happy	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 happy	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 long	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 long	cop
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happy	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 merry	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 merry	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 merry	advmod
15	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happy	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 grig	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grig	det
18	grig	grig	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 merry	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 daughter	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 King	case
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grig	conj
24	fretted	fret	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 daughter	acl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fretted	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thinking	punct
28	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 happy	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 indignity	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 indignity	det
31	indignity	indignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thinking	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 done	obj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 done	aux:pass
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 indignity	acl:relcl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 done	obj
37	in	in	SCONJ	_	38 making	mark
38	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 thinking	advcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 making	obj
40	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 making	xcomp
41	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 marry	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 son	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 widow	det
44	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 widow	amod
45	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 son	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 widow	case
47	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Martin	appos
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Prince	punct
49	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	54 Prince	case
50	of	of	ADP	_	49 instead	fixed
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 Prince	det
52	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Prince	amod
53	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Prince	amod
54	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Martin	appos
55	from	from	ADP	_	58 country	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 country	det
57	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 country	amod
58	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 marry	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Martin				happy property	tree rules
2	is	past	the day				long property	tree rules
3	be		Martin not said here				as a grig and the King's daughter	tree rules
4	fret	participle		the King's daughter not said here		day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	gerund	Martin not said here				of the indignity	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	past · perfect · passive		the indignity				tree rules
7	make	gerund	Martin not said here	feast				tree rules
8	marry	infinitive	feast not said here	Martin	a foreign country			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martin=Patient

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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