The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 71
For three days the boy stayed in the palace, receiving the thanks and praises of the whole court.
Who acts: boy · What happens: stay, receive, praise · To what, where: palace, thanks, whole court
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stayed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stayed | nsubj |
| 6 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stayed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 receiving | punct |
| 11 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stayed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thanks | det |
| 13 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 receiving | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 praises | cc |
| 15 | praises | praise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thanks | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 court | amod |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 praises | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the boy | the palace | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | receive | gerund | the boy not said here | the thanks and praises of the whole court | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 3 | praise | the whole court | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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