The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 58
He vexed himself about it from morning till night, till at length an explanation occurred to him—the young man was in love!
Who acts: king, explanation, young man · What happens: vex, occur, be · To what, where: king, length, love
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, explanation, young 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 vexed | nsubj |
| 2 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 vexed | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 vexed | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vexed | obl |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vexed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 occurred | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 occurred | mark |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occurred | obl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 explanation | det |
| 15 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occurred | nsubj |
| 16 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 vexed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 occurred | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 love | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 love | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occurred | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past | king | king | morning; night | about alteration | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | occur | past | a explanation | king | length | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | the young man | love | tree rules |
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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