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The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 10

By degrees they came to talking about other things in which the King took an interest, and in a wonderfully short time the whole kingdom was astonished by the news that the King was married again to the sorrowful lady.

Who acts: degrees, King, news · What happens: come, talk, take, astonish, marry · To what, where: interest, other things, whole kingdom, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (degrees, King, news), 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

caseoblnsubjmarkadvclcaseamodoblcaseobldetnsubjacl:relcldetobjpunctcccasedetadvmodamodobldetamodnsubj:passaux:passconjcasedetoblmarkdetnsubj:passaux:passadvcladvmodcasedetamodoblpunctrootByADPdegreesNOUNtheyPRONcameVERBtoSCONJtalkingVERBaboutADPotherADJthingsNOUNinADPwhichPRONtheDETKingPROPNtookVERBanDETinterestNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinADPaDETwonderfullyADVshortADJtimeNOUNtheDETwholeADJkingdomNOUNwasAUXastonishedVERBbyADPtheDETnewsNOUNthatSCONJtheDETKingPROPNwasAUXmarriedVERBagainADVtoADPtheDETsorrowfulADJladyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybyADP_2 degreescase
2degreesdegreeNOUNNumber=Plur4 cameobl
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 camensubj
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoSCONJ_6 talkingmark
6talkingtalkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 cameadvcl
7aboutaboutADP_9 thingscase
8otherotherADJDegree=Pos9 thingsamod
9thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur6 talkingobl
10ininADP_11 whichcase
11whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel14 tookobl
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Kingdet
13KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing14 tooknsubj
14tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 thingsacl:relcl
15anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 interestdet
16interestinterestNOUNNumber=Sing14 tookobj
17,,PUNCT_28 astonishedpunct
18andandCCONJ_28 astonishedcc
19ininADP_23 timecase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 timedet
21wonderfullywonderfullyADV_22 shortadvmod
22shortshortADJDegree=Pos23 timeamod
23timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing28 astonishedobl
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 kingdomdet
25wholewholeADJDegree=Pos26 kingdomamod
26kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing28 astonishednsubj:pass
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 astonishedaux:pass
28astonishedastonishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 cameconj
29bybyADP_31 newscase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 newsdet
31newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing28 astonishedobl
32thatthatSCONJ_36 marriedmark
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 Kingdet
34KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing36 marriednsubj:pass
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 marriedaux:pass
36marriedmarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 astonishedadvcl
37againagainADV_36 marriedadvmod
38totoADP_41 ladycase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 ladydet
40sorrowfulsorrowfulADJDegree=Pos41 ladyamod
41ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing36 marriedobl
42..PUNCT_4 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastdegrees = degreeby degreesvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by degree=Location
2talkgerunddegrees = degree not said hereabout other thingsvn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic
3takepastthe Kinga interestother thingsvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in which=Location
4astonishpast · passivethe newsthe whole kingdomtimevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
5marrypast · passivethe Kingagainto the sorrowful ladyvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to lady=Co-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 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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