The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 5
He was nearly beside himself with joy, and in his new life the old one was soon forgotten.
Who acts: cutter · What happens: be, forget · To what, where: old one, new life
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cutter), 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 | 5 himself | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 himself | cop |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 himself | advmod |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 himself | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgotten | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forgotten | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgotten | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgotten | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 forgotten | advmod |
| 19 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 joy | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 himself | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cutter | beside cutter; with joy; nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · passive | the old one | cutter's new life | soon property | 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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