The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 72
When the King’s daughter saw him she was greatly pleased, and next day the marriage ceremony was performed, and the old King bestowed his kingdom on Jack my Hedgehog.
Who acts: daughter, old King · What happens: see, be, perform, bestow · To what, where: King, marriage ceremony, kingdom, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter, old King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | cop |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 performed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 performed | cc |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 performed | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ceremony | det |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ceremony | compound |
| 18 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 performed | aux:pass |
| 20 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bestowed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bestowed | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 King | amod |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bestowed | nsubj |
| 26 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bestowed | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 Jack | case |
| 30 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 bestowed | obl |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Jack | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King's daughter | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | daughter | greatly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perform | past · passive | the marriage ceremony | day | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bestow | past | the old King | King's kingdom | Jack | tree rules |
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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