The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 178
He had been quite given up for dead, and the people were greatly rejoiced to see their beloved ruler again.
What happens: give up, rejoice, see · To what, where: arrival, people, beloved ruler
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 given | advmod |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 given | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dead | case |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rejoiced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rejoiced | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rejoiced | aux:pass |
| 14 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 15 rejoiced | advmod |
| 15 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 given | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rejoiced | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ruler | amod |
| 20 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past · perfect · passive | arrival | for dead | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | past · passive | the people | greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | people's beloved ruler | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ruler=Stimulus |
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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