The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 56

And what pained him most was the thought that he was lost through his very faithfulness, and he determined to travel all over the world and never rest till he found some means of restoring him to life.

Who acts: servant, some · What happens: pain, be, lose, determine, travel, not rest · To what, where: servant, thought, faithfulness, world, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, some), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 pained	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 pained	nsubj
3	pained	pain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pained	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 thought	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thought	det
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pained	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lost	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux:pass
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pained	advcl
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 faithfulness	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 faithfulness	nmod:poss
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 faithfulness	advmod
16	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 determined	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 determined	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 determined	nsubj
20	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pained	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 travel	mark
22	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 determined	xcomp
23	all	all	ADV	_	26 world	advmod
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 travel	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rest	cc
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 rest	advmod
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 travel	conj
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 found	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rest	advcl
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 means	nsubj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 found	ccomp
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 restoring	mark
36	restoring	restore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 means	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 restoring	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 life	case
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 restoring	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pain	past		servant			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	is a	past		the thought			tree rules
3	lose	past · passive		servant		servant's faithfulness	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	determine	past	servant				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	travel	to-infinitive	servant not said here			the world	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory
6	not rest	infinitive	servant not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find	past	servant				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	mean	present	some				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
9	restore	gerund	some not said here	servant	life		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient

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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