The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 16
As soon as the sun rose the prince entered the palace, and held out the apple to his father, who was rejoiced to see it, and praised his youngest son heartily for his cleverness.
Who acts: sun, prince · What happens: rise, enter, hold out, rejoice, see, praise · To what, where: palace, apple, father, youngest son
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 rose | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rose | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apple | det |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rejoiced | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rejoiced | aux:pass |
| 24 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 father | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 rejoiced | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 praised | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 praised | cc |
| 30 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 son | amod |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 praised | obj |
| 34 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 30 praised | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 cleverness | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 37 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 praised | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the prince | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hold out | participle | the sun not said here | the apple | to prince's father | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | |||
| 4 | rejoice | past · passive | prince's father | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | praise | past | the sun not said here | prince's youngest son | for prince's cleverness; heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent son=Theme for cleverness=Attribute |
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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