The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 21

The wife clapped her hands with joy, and cried: ‘Dear heart! what more can one wish for?’ and they sat down and ate and drank.

Who acts: wife, spirits · What happens: clap, cry, sit down, eat, drink · To what, where: hands, Dear heart

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, spirits), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clapped	nsubj
3	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clapped	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 joy	case
7	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clapped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clapped	parataxis
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 heart	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 heart	punct
13	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 heart	amod
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 heart	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 cried	obl
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 wish	amod
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wish	aux
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 wish	nummod
20	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
21	for	for	ADP	_	20 wish	case
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 wish	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ate	cc
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sat	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drank	cc
31	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ate	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clap	past	the wife	wife's hands	with joy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		Dear heart		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Topic
3	sit down	past	spirits = spirit			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past	spirits = spirit not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	past	spirits = spirit not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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