The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 63
Because she was so beautiful, however, the King’s heart was touched, and he was seized with a great love for her.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: be, touch, seize · To what, where: heart, king
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 beautiful | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 touched | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 14 touched | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 touched | aux:pass |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seized | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seized | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seized | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seized | aux:pass |
| 19 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 touched | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 love | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 love | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 love | amod |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seized | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maiden | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | past · passive | the King's heart | however property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | king | with a great love for maiden | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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