The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 14
There was great joy in the castle when the Princess came back, and the old King fell on her neck and kissed her.
Who acts: great joy, Princess, old King · What happens: be, come back, fall, kiss · To what, where: castle, neck, princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great joy, Princess, old King), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | advcl |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 King | amod |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kissed | cc |
| 23 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fell | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kissed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great joy | the castle; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the old King | princess's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | the old King not said here | princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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