The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 58
When the King heard the news that his daughter had actually laughed, he was more than delighted, and had Peter and his marvellous train brought before him.
Who acts: King, daughter · What happens: hear, laugh, be, have, bring · To what, where: news, Peter, marvellous train
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, daughter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laughed | aux |
| 11 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 more | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 more | cop |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 heard | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 delighted | case |
| 18 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 more | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 22 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 train | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 train | nmod:poss |
| 25 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 train | amod |
| 26 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Peter | conj |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 train | acl |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past · perfect | King's daughter | actually property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | King | than delighted; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the King not said here | Peter and Peter's marvellous train | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bring | participle | Peter's marvellous train not said here | before Peter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
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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