The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 18

So you may guess how astonished they were one day, when having at last been successful after their long and weary chase, they cried aloud at the same instant: ‘At last I have saved my beloved,’ and then recognising each other’s voice looked up, and rushed to meet one another with the wildest joy.

Who acts: you, miracles, I, voice · What happens: guess, astonish, be, have, cry, save · To what, where: one day, same instant, one

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, miracles, I, voice), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 guess	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	aux
4	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 astonished	advmod
6	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guess	xcomp
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 day	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 day	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 astonished	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 having	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 having	mark
13	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 guess	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 successful	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 successful	amod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 successful	cop
17	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 having	obl
18	after	after	ADP	_	23 chase	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chase	nmod:poss
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chase	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 weary	cc
22	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 long	conj
23	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 successful	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cried	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cried	nsubj
26	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 successful	conj
27	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	26 cried	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 instant	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 instant	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 instant	amod
31	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cried	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 last	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 last	punct
34	At	at	ADP	_	35 last	case
35	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guess	conj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 saved	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 saved	aux
38	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 last	acl:relcl
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 beloved	nmod:poss
40	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 saved	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ’	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 last	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 recognising	cc
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 recognising	advmod
45	recognising	recognise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 last	conj
46	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	47 other	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 voice	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 other	case
49	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 looked	nsubj
50	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 recognising	advcl
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 looked	compound:prt
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 rushed	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 rushed	cc
54	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	parataxis
55	to	to	PART	_	56 meet	mark
56	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 rushed	xcomp
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 meet	obj
58	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	57 one	fixed
59	with	with	ADP	_	62 joy	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 joy	det
61	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	62 joy	amod
62	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 meet	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	may	you					vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	astonish	participle	you not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	miracles = miracle	one day				tree rules
4	have	gerund	you not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	participle				after miracles's long chase	successful property	tree rules
6	cry speech: express	past	miracles = miracle		the same instant		aloud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at instant=Location
7	save	present · perfect	I				beloved property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	recognise	gerund	you not said here			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	look up	past	each other's voice					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	rush	past						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
11	meet	to-infinitive		one			with the wildest joy	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme with joy=Instrument
12	chase		miracles = miracle					nom chase «act 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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