The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 42
The King and his daughter were immensely surprised with the beauty of the carriage, and mounted the steps at once to go to Jenik’s banquet.
What happens: surprise, mount, go · To what, where: King, steps, banquet
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: 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 | 8 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 daughter | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | aux:pass |
| 7 | immensely | immensely | ADV | _ | 8 surprised | advmod |
| 8 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beauty | det |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surprised | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 carriage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 carriage | det |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beauty | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mounted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mounted | cc |
| 17 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 steps | det |
| 19 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mounted | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 mounted | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 mounted | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 banquet | case |
| 25 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 banquet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Jenik | case |
| 27 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | past · passive | the King and king's daughter | with the beauty of the carriage; immensely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | the steps | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme at once=Destination | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Jenik's banquet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to banquet=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/42/