The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 18
When the king had embraced the princess, he gave her the lamb, to her great joy.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: embrace, give, joy · To what, where: princess, lamb
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 embraced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 embraced | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embraced | aux |
| 5 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 embraced | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embraced | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lamb | det |
| 13 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 joy | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 joy | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 joy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 joy | amod |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past · perfect | the king | the princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | king | the lamb | princess | to princess's great joy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lamb=Theme | ||
| 3 | joy | princess | nom joy «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/18/