The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 7

The mother of the genius was rejoiced to see her son return safe and sound, and prepared her best room for the princess, who, after so much fatigue, needed rest badly.

Who acts: son, much fatigue · What happens: rejoice, see, return, prepare, need · To what, where: mother, son, best room, rest

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (son, much fatigue), 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	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rejoiced	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 genius	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 genius	det
5	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rejoiced	aux:pass
7	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rejoiced	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	xcomp
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 return	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sound	cc
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 safe	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prepared	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 prepared	cc
18	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rejoiced	parataxis
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 room	nmod:poss
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 room	amod
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prepared	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 princess	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prepared	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fatigue	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fatigue	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fatigue	punct
28	after	after	ADP	_	31 fatigue	case
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fatigue	amod
31	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 princess	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 needed	punct
33	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 fatigue	acl
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 needed	obj
35	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 needed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past · passive		the mother of the genius		tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		Sunlight's son		tree rules
3	return	infinitive	Sunlight's son not said here		safe property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prepare	past		Sunlight's best room	for the princess	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for princess=Beneficiary
5	need	participle	much fatigue not said here	rest	badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme

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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