The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 43

Now he had an only daughter who was extremely beautiful, and who, delighted at her father’s return, ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck and kissed him heartily.

Who acts: Jack, only daughter, father · What happens: have, be, run, meet, throw, kiss · To what, where: only daughter, Jack, arms

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, only daughter, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 daughter	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	amod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 beautiful	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beautiful	cop
9	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	10 beautiful	advmod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 delighted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 delighted	cc
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 delighted	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 delighted	punct
15	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 return	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 delighted	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ran	punct
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 meet	mark
24	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ran	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 meet	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 threw	punct
27	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arms	nmod:poss
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 threw	obj
30	round	round	ADP	_	32 neck	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neck	nmod:poss
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 threw	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kissed	cc
34	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 threw	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kissed	obj
36	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	34 kissed	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Jack	a only daughter	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	past	a only daughter			beautiful, extremely property	tree rules
3	run	past	Jack not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Jack			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	throw	past		daughter's arms		round Jack's neck	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
6	kiss	past		Jack		heartily property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7	return		daughter's father				nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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