The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 18
In his joy at this discovery Tiidu did a very bold thing.
Who acts: mind · What happens: do, joy · To what, where: bold thing, joy, discovery
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 discovery | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 discovery | det |
| 6 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | nmod |
| 7 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 discovery | appos |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 bold | advmod |
| 11 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | a bold thing | mind's joy at this discovery | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | joy | mind | this discovery | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent at=place |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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