The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 98
The King’s joy was great when he embraced his youngest son, for he had long since despaired of his return.
Who acts: joy, emperor, King · What happens: be, embrace, have, despair, joy, return · To what, where: youngest son
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 (joy, emperor, King), 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 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 great | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | cop |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 embraced | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 embraced | nsubj |
| 9 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 embraced | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 had | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 great | conj |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 had | advmod |
| 18 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 despaired | mark |
| 19 | despaired | despair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 had | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 return | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 return | nmod:poss |
| 22 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 despaired | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King's joy | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | emperor | emperor's youngest son | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | emperor | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | despair | participle | emperor not said here | of emperor's return | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | joy | the King | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | return | emperor | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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