The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 33
The husband was overjoyed, for he thought this sounded easy enough to get, and he went off at once in search of it.
Who acts: husband, this · What happens: overjoy, think, sound, get, go off, search · To what, where: husband, search · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 husband | det |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 thought | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | parataxis |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sounded | nsubj |
| 10 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sounded | xcomp |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 easy | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easy | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 went | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 search | case |
| 23 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 search | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | husband | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sound | past | this | easy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | this not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go off | past | husband | search of search | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 6 | search | search | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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