The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 53
Peter was overjoyed at this fortunate discovery, and instantly set himself to obtain a red cloak.
What happens: overjoy, set, obtain · To what, where: Peter, fortunate discovery, red cloak
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 3 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 discovery | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 discovery | det |
| 6 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 discovery | amod |
| 7 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overjoyed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overjoyed | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 obtain | mark |
| 14 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cloak | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cloak | amod |
| 17 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obtain | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | Peter | this fortunate discovery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Peter | instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | obtain | to-infinitive | a red cloak | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cloak=Theme |
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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