The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 80
Then they invited the King and Queen of Starza-Longa to their Court, and had a great wedding feast, and proved once more that there is no better seasoning for the joys of true love than a few pangs of grief.
Who acts: things · What happens: invite, have, prove, be, joy · To what, where: King, great wedding feast, better seasoning, true love
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 (things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 invited | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invited | nsubj |
| 3 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Queen | cc |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Starza | case |
| 9 | Starza | Starza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Queen | nmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Longa | punct |
| 11 | Longa | Longa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Queen | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Court | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Court | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invited | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feast | amod |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | compound |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proved | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 proved | cc |
| 24 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seasoning | advcl |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 proved | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 is | mark |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 seasoning | cop |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 seasoning | det |
| 31 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 seasoning | amod |
| 32 | seasoning | seasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 joys | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 joys | det |
| 35 | joys | joy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 seasoning | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 love | case |
| 37 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 love | amod |
| 38 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 joys | nmod |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 pangs | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 pangs | det |
| 41 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 pangs | amod |
| 42 | pangs | pang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 love | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 grief | case |
| 44 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pangs | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | things = thing | the King and Queen of Starza and Longa | then | to things's Court | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||
| 2 | have | past | things = thing not said here | a great wedding feast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | ||||
| 3 | prove | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | no better seasoning | for the joys of true love than a few pangs of grief | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | joy | true love than a few pangs of grief | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=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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