The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 82

When the three rode into the courtyard of the palace, they were surprised and delighted to find everything festively illuminated and decorated for their reception.

Who acts: three, princes · What happens: ride, be, find, illuminate, decorate, receive · To what, where: courtyard, everything

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, princes), 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	4 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 three	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 surprised	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 courtyard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 courtyard	det
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 courtyard	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 surprised	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 surprised	cop
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 delighted	cc
16	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 surprised	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 delighted	advcl
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 find	obj
20	festively	festively	ADV	_	21 illuminated	advmod
21	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 everything	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 decorated	cc
23	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 illuminated	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 reception	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 reception	nmod:poss
26	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 decorated	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the three		the courtyard of the palace		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Trajectory
2	is	past	princes = prince			surprised property	tree rules
3	be		princes = prince not said here				tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	princes = prince not said here	everything			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
5	illuminate	participle				festively property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	decorate	participle				for princes's reception	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	receive		princes = prince				nom reception «communication 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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