The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 142
And his son-in-law put on the royal robes, and he looked so grand and stately that it was impossible to recognise the poor Simpleton, so changed was he; and the Princess fell in love with him as soon as ever she saw him.
Who acts: son, monarch, Princess · What happens: put, look, be, recognise, change, fall · To what, where: law, royal robes, poor Simpleton, love, monarch
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, monarch, Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 law | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 law | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 robes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robes | det |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 robes | amod |
| 12 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 grand | advmod |
| 18 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 impossible | cc |
| 20 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 24 impossible | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 impossible | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 impossible | expl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 impossible | cop |
| 24 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grand | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 recognise | mark |
| 26 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 impossible | csubj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Simpleton | det |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Simpleton | amod |
| 29 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 recognise | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 changed | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 changed | advmod |
| 32 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 looked | conj |
| 33 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 changed | ccomp |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 was | nsubj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 fell | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 fell | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Princess | det |
| 38 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 fell | nsubj |
| 39 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 love | case |
| 41 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fell | obl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 fell | obl |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 soon | advmod |
| 45 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 fell | advmod |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 saw | mark |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 49 saw | advmod |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 saw | nsubj |
| 49 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 soon | advcl |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 saw | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | law not said here | the royal robes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | look | past | monarch's son | grand property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | monarch's son not said here | impossible, stately property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | recognise | to-infinitive | the poor Simpleton | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer simpleton=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | change | participle | monarch's son not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | past | monarch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | fall | past | the Princess | love | with monarch; soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 8 | see | past | Princess | monarch | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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