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The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 90

The news of his son’s adventures had already reached his father’s Court, and everyone was more than astonished at the success of the once despised Prince.

Who acts: success, son · What happens: reach, astonish, despise, adventure · To what, where: news, everyone, success, Prince

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 (success, son), 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

detnsubj:passcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodauxadvmodnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjpunctccnsubj:passaux:passadvmodfixedconjcasedetoblcasedetoblacl:relclobjpunctrootTheDETnewsNOUNofADPhisPRONsonNOUN’sPARTadventuresNOUNhadAUXalreadyADVreachedVERBhisPRONfatherNOUN’sPARTCourtNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJeveryonePRONwasAUXmoreADJthanADPastonishedVERBatADPtheDETsuccessNOUNofADPtheDETonceNOUNdespisedVERBPrincePROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 newsdet
2newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing10 reachednsubj:pass
3ofofADP_7 adventurescase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 sonnmod:poss
5sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing7 adventuresnmod:poss
6’s'sPART_5 soncase
7adventuresadventureNOUNNumber=Plur2 newsnmod
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 reachedaux
9alreadyalreadyADV_10 reachedadvmod
10reachedreachVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 fathernmod:poss
12fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing14 Courtnmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 fathercase
14CourtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing10 reachedobj
15,,PUNCT_21 astonishedpunct
16andandCCONJ_21 astonishedcc
17everyoneeveryonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot21 astonishednsubj:pass
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 astonishedaux:pass
19moremoreADJDegree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV21 astonishedadvmod
20thanthanADP_19 morefixed
21astonishedastonishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 reachedconj
22atatADP_24 successcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 successdet
24successsuccessNOUNNumber=Sing21 astonishedobl
25ofofADP_27 oncecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 oncedet
27onceonceNOUNNumber=Sing28 despisedobl
28despiseddespiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 successacl:relcl
29PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing28 despisedobj
30..PUNCT_10 reachedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpast · perfect · passivethe news of emperor's son's adventuresvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary court=Theme
2astonishpast · passiveeveryonethe successvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3despisepastthe success not said herePrinceof the oncevn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
4adventureemperor's sonnom adventure «act 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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