The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 2
One day as he sat by her side feeling very happy, he received news that his father was lying at the point of death, and desired to see him before his end.
Who acts: King, father · What happens: sit, feel, receive, lie, desire, see · To what, where: news, point, King, death
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, father), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 sat | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sat | advcl |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 happy | advmod |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feeling | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 received | nsubj |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 lying | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lying | aux |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 news | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 point | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 point | det |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 point | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 desired | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 desired | cc |
| 28 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 received | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 desired | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 end | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 end | nmod:poss |
| 34 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | King | day | by Princess's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | King not said here | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | King | news | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | King's father | news not said here | the point of death | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme | |||
| 5 | desire | participle | King not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | King | before King's end | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | point | death | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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