The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 25

At these words the youth’s heart sank, for he had never been trained either as a smith or a joiner.

Who acts: heart · What happens: sink, not train · To what, where: words, heart

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sank	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heart	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 youth	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sank	nsubj
8	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trained	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 trained	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trained	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trained	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 trained	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 trained	aux:pass
15	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sank	conj
16	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 trained	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 smith	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 smith	det
19	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trained	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 joiner	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 joiner	det
22	joiner	joiner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smith	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	the youth's heart			this words			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not train	past · perfect · passive		heart				as a smith or a joiner; either property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as smith=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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