The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 13
Besides the pleasure of seeing the world, the youth was very anxious to discover what had become of his brothers, and he determined to trace, as far as he could, the way that they must have gone.
Who acts: pleasure, youth, man, people · What happens: see, be, discover, become, determine, trace · To what, where: world, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, youth, man, people), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 3 pleasure | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pleasure | det |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 anxious | obl |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 seeing | mark |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 pleasure | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleasure | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 anxious | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 anxious | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 anxious | advmod |
| 13 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 discover | mark |
| 15 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 anxious | csubj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 become | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 discover | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 become | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 determined | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 determined | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 determined | nsubj |
| 25 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 anxious | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 trace | mark |
| 27 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 determined | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 far | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 far | advmod |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 trace | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 could | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 could | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 far | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 way | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 way | det |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trace | obl |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 gone | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 gone | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 gone | aux |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 gone | aux |
| 41 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 way | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the pleasure not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the youth | besides the pleasure; anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discover | to-infinitive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | of man's brothers | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | determine | past | man | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | trace | to-infinitive | man not said here | the way | far property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | go | must · perfect | people | the way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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