The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 21

King Gridelin had no sooner set eyes upon the lady than with a cry of joy he clasped her in his arms, for it was no other than his long-lost wife, Santorina, about whose imprisonment in Fairyland you may perhaps read some day.

Who acts: King, joy, you, long lost wife · What happens: have, clasp, be, lose, read, cry · To what, where: set eyes, Bird, arms, Fairyland

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 (King, joy, you, long lost wife), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 eyes	det
5	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 set	advmod
6	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 lady	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 cry	case
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cry	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cry	det
14	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lady	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 joy	case
16	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cry	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clasped	nsubj
18	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cry	acl:relcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clasped	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 arms	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 clasped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 other	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 other	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 other	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 other	cop
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
29	than	than	ADP	_	34 wife	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wife	nmod:poss
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wife	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 long	punct
33	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 wife	amod
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 other	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Santorina	punct
36	Santorina	Santorina	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 wife	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 imprisonment	punct
38	about	about	ADV	_	40 imprisonment	advmod
39	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	40 imprisonment	nmod:poss
40	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wife	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 Fairyland	case
42	Fairyland	Fairyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 imprisonment	nmod
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 read	nsubj
44	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 read	aux
45	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	46 read	advmod
46	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 imprisonment	parataxis
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 day	det
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 read	obl:unmarked
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	King	no set eyes			upon the lady than a cry of joy	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	clasp	past	King	Bird	King's arms			vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is	past	joy				than King's long lost wife and King's long lost wife and long lost wife's imprisonment in Fairyland's imprisonment in Fairyland; other property	tree rules
4	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	read	may	you			day	perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry		joy					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent
7	imprison		King's long lost wife and King's long lost wife and imprisonment in Fairyland's imprisonment in Fairyland		Fairyland			nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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