The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 47
Full of delight he brought it to the King’s daughter, expecting to receive his promised reward.
Who acts: youth · What happens: bring, expect, receive, promise, reward · To what, where: delight, daughter, promised reward
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 delight | case |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delight | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expecting | punct |
| 13 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 brought | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 receive | mark |
| 15 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 expecting | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 reward | nmod:poss |
| 17 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 reward | amod |
| 18 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receive | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | youth | delight | the King's daughter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to daughter=Destination | |||
| 2 | expect | gerund | youth not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | receive not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | youth's promised reward | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | reward | youth | nom reward «event transitive»: 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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