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The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 20

Very soon after came the news that King Charming, who was the most handsome and magnificent Prince in all the country round, was on his way to visit the King.

Who acts: Charming · What happens: come, be, visit · To what, where: news, country, way, 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 (Charming), 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

advmodadvmodmarkdetobjmarknmod:descnmodpunctnsubjcopdetadvmodconjccamodconjcasedet:predetdetobladvmodpunctcopcasenmod:possapposmarkacldetobjpunctrootVeryADVsoonADVafterSCONJcameVERBtheDETnewsNOUNthatSCONJKingPROPNCharmingPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXtheDETmostADVhandsomeADJandCCONJmagnificentADJPrincePROPNinADPallDETtheDETcountryNOUNroundADV,PUNCTwasAUXonADPhisPRONwayNOUNtoPARTvisitVERBtheDETKingPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1VeryveryADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos4 cameadvmod
3afterafterSCONJ_4 camemark
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 newsdet
6newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing4 cameobj
7thatthatSCONJ_9 Charmingmark
8KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing9 Charmingnmod:desc
9CharmingCharmingPROPNNumber=Sing6 newsnmod
10,,PUNCT_15 handsomepunct
11whowhoPRONPronType=Rel15 handsomensubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 handsomecop
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 handsomedet
14mostmostADVDegree=Sup15 handsomeadvmod
15handsomehandsomeADJDegree=Pos9 Charmingconj
16andandCCONJ_18 Princecc
17magnificentmagnificentADJDegree=Pos18 Princeamod
18PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing15 handsomeconj
19ininADP_22 countrycase
20allallDETPronType=Tot22 countrydet:predet
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 countrydet
22countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing15 handsomeobl
23roundroundADV_22 countryadvmod
24,,PUNCT_28 waypunct
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 waycop
26ononADP_28 waycase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 waynmod:poss
28waywayNOUNNumber=Sing9 Charmingappos
29totoPART_30 visitmark
30visitvisitVERBVerbForm=Inf28 wayacl
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Kingdet
32KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing30 visitobj
33..PUNCT_4 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe news Charming Kingsoon propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme
2ispastCharming Kingall countryhandsome propertytree rules
3ispastKing's waytree rules
4visitto-infinitivethe Kingvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-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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