The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 27
The old woman was greatly pleased, and began to fondle the Prince with the utmost delight.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, begin, fondle · To what, where: Prince
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 (old woman), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fondle | mark |
| 11 | fondle | fondle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fondle | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 delight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 delight | det |
| 16 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 delight | amod |
| 17 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fondle | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old woman | greatly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the old woman not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fondle | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | the Prince | with the utmost delight | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prince=Experiencer with delight=Instrument |
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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