The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 12
This advice pleased the boy, for he felt himself almost a man by this time, and thought it was high time he saw the world.
Who acts: advice, surprise · What happens: feel, think, be, see · To what, where: advice, high time, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advice, surprise), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 advice | det |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boy | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 felt | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 felt | obj |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 man | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 time | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | cop |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | advice | advice | time | a man obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | advice not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | surprise | high time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | advice | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=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: «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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