The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 25
The king was so delighted with the success of his plan that he ordered a great feast to be got ready, and gave splendid presents to the foster parents of his son, so that he might lack nothing.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, order, get, give, lack, plan · To what, where: great feast, splendid presents, foster parents, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 success | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 success | det |
| 8 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 plan | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plan | nmod:poss |
| 11 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 success | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 ordered | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ordered | nsubj |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plan | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feast | amod |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 got | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 got | aux:pass |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ordered | ccomp |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 got | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | parataxis |
| 25 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 presents | amod |
| 26 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 parents | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 parents | det |
| 29 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 parents | compound |
| 30 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 son | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 parents | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lack | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 lack | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 so | fixed |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lack | nsubj |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 lack | aux |
| 39 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gave | conj |
| 40 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 39 lack | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | with the success of king's plan; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | king | a great feast | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feast=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 4 | give | past | splendid presents | the foster parents of king's son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to parent=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | lack | might | king | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | plan | king | nom plan «cognition 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.
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