The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 61
Full of joy the young man started on his way back and brought the golden apple to the lovely Princess, whose objections were now entirely silenced.
Who acts: Full joy · What happens: start, bring, silence · To what, where: way, golden apple, lovely Princess, objections
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 (Full joy), 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 | 3 joy | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 way | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 started | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apple | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 apple | amod |
| 16 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 19 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Princess | amod |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 silenced | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 objections | nmod:poss |
| 23 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 silenced | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 silenced | aux |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 silenced | advmod |
| 26 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 27 silenced | advmod |
| 27 | silenced | silence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Full joy | joy's way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Full joy not said here | the golden apple | the lovely Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to princess=Destination | |||
| 3 | silence | past · passive | objections | now | entirely property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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