English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 62
And the whole of the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance, for which they thanked the young man.
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: overjoy, thank, deliver · To what, where: deliverance, young man
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 overjoyed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whole | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 overjoyed | advcl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prisoners | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prisoners | det |
| 6 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whole | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 8 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 deliverance | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overjoyed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thanked | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 thanked | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thanked | nsubj |
| 16 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overjoyed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | prisoners's deliverance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | prisoners = prisoner | the young man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme for which=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | deliver | prisoners = prisoner | nom deliverance «act 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: «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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