The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 44
Therefore it was with great joy he heard that she was living and that a king’s son asked her in marriage, and he quitted his kingdom with his elder daughter so as to be present at the ceremony.
Who acts: harshness, father, Princess, son · What happens: be, hear, live, ask, quitt · To what, where: great joy, Princess, marriage, kingdom, ceremony · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harshness, father, Princess, son), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 joy | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 joy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joy | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 joy | amod |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 living | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 living | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 living | aux |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 asked | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 marriage | case |
| 22 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 quitted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 quitted | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 quitted | nsubj |
| 26 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quitted | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 daughter | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 daughter | compound |
| 32 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quitted | obl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 present | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 present | mark |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 present | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 present | cop |
| 37 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 quitted | ccomp |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 ceremony | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ceremony | det |
| 40 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 present | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | harshness | with great joy; therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | father | great joy not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past · progressive | Princess | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | a king's son | Princess | marriage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 5 | quitt | past | father | father's kingdom | with father's elder daughter | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | father not said here | the ceremony | present property | tree rules |
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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