The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 61
The young man, thus encouraged, began his tale.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: encourage, begin, tell · To what, where: young man, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 encouraged | punct |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 encouraged | advmod |
| 6 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tale | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encourage | participle | the young man not said here | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the young man | man's tale | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell | man | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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: «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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