English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 10
When the king got home again, he was very happy to see his wife again, and his young son.
Who acts: king, Nix · What happens: get, be, see · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Nix), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 happy | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 happy | advmod |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 happy | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 son | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 son | amod |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | vocative |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the king | again | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | Nix | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Nix not said here | Nix's wife | again | Nix's young son vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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