The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 42

His return was the signal for great public rejoicings, and the King was so overcome that he became quite speechless, and did nothing but embrace his son.

Who acts: return, King, Rosimond · What happens: be, become, do, embrace, return · To what, where: signal, nothing, son

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (return, King, Rosimond), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 return	nmod:poss
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signal	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 signal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 signal	det
5	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 rejoicings	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rejoicings	amod
8	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rejoicings	amod
9	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 signal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 overcome	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 overcome	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 overcome	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 overcome	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 overcome	advmod
16	overcome	overcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 signal	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 became	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 overcome	advcl
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 speechless	advmod
21	speechless	speechless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 did	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 did	cc
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 became	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 did	obj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 embrace	cc
27	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 embrace	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 signal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Rosimond's return	the signal	for great public rejoicings	tree rules
2	is	past	the King		overcome property	tree rules
3	become	past	King		speechless property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	do	past	King not said here	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	embrace	infinitive	King not said here	Rosimond's son		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent
6	return		Rosimond			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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