The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 45

Then came a courier bearing the congratulations of the King and Queen, who had just heard of his successful return, and there was even a graceful compliment from Sabella herself.

Who acts: King, graceful compliment, foot · What happens: come, bear, hear, be, congratulate, return · To what, where: courier, congratulations

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, graceful compliment, foot), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 courier	det
4	courier	courier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obj
5	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 congratulations	det
7	congratulations	congratulation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bearing	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 congratulations	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Queen	cc
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 King	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 heard	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 King	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 return	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 return	nmod:poss
20	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 return	amod
21	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
26	even	even	ADV	_	29 compliment	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 compliment	det
28	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 compliment	amod
29	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 Sabella	case
31	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 compliment	nmod
32	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 was	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a courier		then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location courier=Theme
2	bear	gerund		the congratulations of the King and Queen				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congratulation=Patient
3	hear	past · perfect	the King and Queen				of foot's successful return	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of return=Stimulus
4	be	past	a graceful compliment from Sabella		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	congratulate		the King and Queen					nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	return		foot					nom return «communication intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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