The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 99
He was received in the most; friendly manner, and, to his surprise, his master exclaimed, ‘I am very well satisfied with you.
Who acts: master, I, prince · What happens: receive, exclaim, be, surprise · To what, where: prince, friendly manner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, I, prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 manner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 manner | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 friendly | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 most | punct |
| 8 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 manner | amod |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surprise | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 surprise | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surprise | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 surprise | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 exclaimed | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 19 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 surprise | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 satisfied | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 satisfied | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 satisfied | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 satisfied | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 satisfied | advmod |
| 26 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 satisfied | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | prince | the friendly manner | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in manner=Location | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | prince's master | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | with you; satisfied, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | surprise | prince | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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