The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 22
To my great joy, they not only permitted this, but actually, when they had their own meals, the Queen brought my portion up to me.
Who acts: King, Queen, my · What happens: not permit, have, bring up, joy · To what, where: King, own meals, portion, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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, Queen, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 permitted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 permitted | advmod |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 permitted | advmod |
| 9 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 permitted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 brought | cc |
| 13 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 24 brought | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 actually | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 meals | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 meals | amod |
| 20 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | nsubj |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 permitted | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 portion | nmod:poss |
| 26 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 brought | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit | participle · passive | King | to my great joy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme this=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | King | King's own meals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring up | past | the Queen | my portion | me | actually property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent portion=Patient | ||
| 4 | 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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