The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 79
Father Peter was somewhat amused by this speech; but he liked the young man well, and saw that he was the very person he needed to enable him to enjoy his wealth in peace, without being separated from his dear daughter.
Who acts: speech, Peter, person, man · What happens: amuse, like, see, be, need, enable · To what, where: Father Peter, young man, person, man, wealth, peace · 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 (speech, Peter, person, 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Peter | compound |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 amused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amused | aux:pass |
| 4 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 5 amused | advmod |
| 5 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 speech | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 speech | det |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amused | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 liked | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 liked | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 liked | nsubj |
| 12 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amused | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 liked | obj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 liked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 liked | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 person | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 person | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 person | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 person | advmod |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 needed | nsubj |
| 27 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 person | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 enable | mark |
| 29 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 needed | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 enable | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 enjoy | mark |
| 32 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 enable | xcomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 enjoy | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 peace | case |
| 36 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 enjoy | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 separated | punct |
| 38 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 40 separated | mark |
| 39 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 separated | aux:pass |
| 40 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 enjoy | advcl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 daughter | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 43 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 daughter | amod |
| 44 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 separated | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past · passive | this speech | Father Peter | somewhat property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | like | past | Peter | the young man | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | Peter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Peter | the person | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | need | past | Peter | the person not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | enable not said to happen | to-infinitive | the person not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | enjoy | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's wealth | peace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wealth=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | separate | gerund · passive | man not said here | from man's dear daughter | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from daughter=Co-Patient |
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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