The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 144

The King was beside himself with joy, and was astonished at how clever a man Ring was in all kinds of feats, so that he esteemed him still more highly than before, and betrothed his daughter to him; and the feast for this was to last all through Christmastide.

Who acts: King, joy, Ring, feast · What happens: be, esteem, betroth · To what, where: clever, kinds, iron, daughter, Ring, Christmastide

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, joy, Ring, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 joy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joy	cop
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 was	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 joy	case
7	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 astonished	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 astonished	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 astonished	cop
11	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joy	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 clever	case
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 clever	advmod
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 astonished	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Ring	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Ring	compound
17	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 astonished	conj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 kinds	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 kinds	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 kinds	det
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Ring	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 feats	case
23	feats	feat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kinds	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 esteemed	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 esteemed	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 esteemed	nsubj
28	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joy	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 esteemed	obj
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 more	advmod
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 highly	advmod
32	highly	highly	ADV	_	28 esteemed	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 before	case
34	before	before	ADV	_	32 highly	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 betrothed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 betrothed	cc
37	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 esteemed	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 daughter	nmod:poss
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 betrothed	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 betrothed	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 last	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 last	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 feast	det
45	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 last	nsubj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 this	case
47	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 feast	nmod
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 last	cop
49	to	to	PART	_	50 last	mark
50	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 joy	parataxis
51	all	all	ADV	_	53 Christmastide	advmod
52	through	through	ADP	_	53 Christmastide	case
53	Christmastide	Christmastide	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 last	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 joy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King				with joy	tree rules
2	is	past	joy not said here			clever	astonished property	tree rules
3	is	past				all kinds	of feats	tree rules
4	esteem	past	Ring	iron			highly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	betroth	past	Ring not said here	Ring's daughter	Ring			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=Recipient
6	is	past	the feast for this			Christmastide	last property	tree rules

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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