The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 3
Then he returned, magnificently dressed, and his father was so delighted with his behaviour, that he gave a great feast in his honour, to which all the relations and friends were invited.
Who acts: man, father · What happens: return, dress, be, give, invite, honour · To what, where: great feast, honour, relations
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dressed | punct |
| 5 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 6 dressed | advmod |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 returned | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 delighted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 delighted | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 delighted | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 delighted | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 delighted | advmod |
| 13 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 returned | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 behaviour | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 delighted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 gave | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 feast | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feast | amod |
| 23 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 honour | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 honour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 invited | punct |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 invited | obl |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 relations | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 relations | det |
| 32 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 friends | cc |
| 34 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 relations | conj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 invited | aux:pass |
| 36 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 gave | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | man | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | man not said here | magnificently property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man's father | with man's behaviour; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | man | a great feast | man's honour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 5 | invite | past · passive | all relations and friends | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | honour | man | nom honour «state 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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