The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 66

The King was overjoyed at the sight, and rushed to throw himself at her feet, and asked her a thousand questions without giving her time to answer one.

What happens: overjoy, rush, throw, ask, give, answer · To what, where: King, sight, feet, thousand questions, Princess, one

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 overjoyed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overjoyed	aux:pass
4	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 sight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sight	det
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overjoyed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rushed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rushed	cc
10	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overjoyed	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 throw	mark
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rushed	xcomp
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 throw	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 throw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rushed	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 questions	nummod
23	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 asked	obj
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 giving	mark
25	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 asked	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 time	nmod:poss
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 giving	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 answer	mark
29	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 time	acl
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 answer	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	overjoy	past · passive	the King		the sight		tree rules
2	rush	past					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
3	throw	to-infinitive	King		Princess's feet		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
4	ask speech: ask	past	thousand questions	Princess			tree rules
5	give	gerund				time	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	one				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

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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