The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 85
The young man was overjoyed at this sudden change in his fortunes, and did not know how to thank father Peter for his generosity.
What happens: overjoy, not know, thank · To what, where: young man, sudden change, father · 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: 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 | 5 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 5 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 change | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 change | det |
| 8 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 change | amod |
| 9 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overjoyed | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fortunes | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 change | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 overjoyed | conj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 thank | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 thank | mark |
| 20 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thank | obj |
| 22 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 father | appos |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 generosity | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 generosity | nmod:poss |
| 25 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thank | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the young man | this sudden change in man's fortunes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | father | for man's generosity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent father=Theme for generosity=Attribute |
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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