The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 108
The King and Queen received them with such joy and gladness as had never been heard of before, and they all lived happily for the rest of their lives.
Who acts: King · What happens: receive, not hear, live · To what, where: doves, such joy
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 received | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 received | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 joy | amod |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gladness | cc |
| 11 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joy | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 heard | aux:pass |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 joy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lived | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 lived | advmod |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | conj |
| 24 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 23 lived | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 rest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rest | det |
| 27 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 lives | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 lives | nmod:poss |
| 30 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rest | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the King and Queen | doves = dove | with such joy and gladness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | not hear | past · perfect · passive | such joy and gladness not said here | before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||
| 3 | live | past | King | for the rest of King's lives; happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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