The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 160
Then all the court applauded, and the king and queen accepted Jesper as their son-in-law, and the princess was very well pleased, for by this time she had quite fallen in love with him, because he was so handsome and so clever.
Who acts: court, king, princess · What happens: applaud, accept, be, fall · To what, where: Jesper, love
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, king, princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 applauded | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 court | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 court | det |
| 4 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 applauded | nsubj |
| 5 | applauded | applaud | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 accepted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 accepted | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accepted | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 queen | cc |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 12 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 applauded | conj |
| 13 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 accepted | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 law | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accepted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pleased | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pleased | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleased | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pleased | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 well | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 pleased | advmod |
| 28 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 applauded | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fallen | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fallen | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fallen | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 fallen | aux |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 fallen | advmod |
| 37 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 applauded | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 love | case |
| 39 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fallen | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 love | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 handsome | punct |
| 43 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 47 handsome | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 handsome | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 handsome | cop |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 handsome | advmod |
| 47 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fallen | conj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 clever | cc |
| 49 | so | so | ADV | _ | 50 clever | advmod |
| 50 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 handsome | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 applauded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | applaud | past | all court | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | accept | past | the king and queen | Jesper | as law | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent jesper=Theme as law=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | past | the princess | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | princess | love with king | time | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | is | past | king | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | king not said here | 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 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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