The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 71
When the King saw his son thus marvellously restored to life and health, he turned to him and said: ‘My dear son, I thought of you as dead, and now, to my great joy and amazement, you are alive again.
Who acts: King, I, you, my · What happens: see, restore, turn, say, think, be · To what, where: son, life, dear son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I, you, my), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 restored | advmod |
| 8 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 9 restored | advmod |
| 9 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 restored | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 health | cc |
| 13 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
| 23 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thought | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 son | acl:relcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 thought | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 dead | case |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 thought | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 alive | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 alive | cc |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 alive | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 now | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 joy | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 joy | nmod:poss |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 joy | amod |
| 40 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 alive | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 amazement | cc |
| 42 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 joy | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 joy | punct |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 alive | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 alive | cop |
| 46 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turned | conj |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 46 alive | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | King's son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | restore | participle | the King not said here | life and health | marvellously, thus property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient | |||
| 3 | turn | past | King | son | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | I | My dear son not said here | of you; as dead | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | present | you | now; again | to my great joy and amazement; alive property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | joy | my | nom joy «feeling transitive»: 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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