The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 36
The old King was delighted, and embraced his thrice fortunate son and his new daughter-in-law tenderly, and appointed them as his successors to the throne.
Who acts: old King · What happens: be, embrace, appoint · To what, where: thrice fortunate son, sons
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 embraced | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 embraced | cc |
| 8 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 son | amod |
| 11 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 embraced | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | conj |
| 21 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 law | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appointed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 appointed | cc |
| 24 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 embraced | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 appointed | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 successors | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 successors | nmod:poss |
| 28 | successors | successor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 appointed | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 throne | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 throne | det |
| 31 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appointed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old King | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | King's thrice fortunate son and King's new daughter and law | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | appoint | past | sons = son | as King's successors; to the throne | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as successor=Attribute |
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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