The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 20
He could hardly believe his own eyes for joy when he saw the prince, and Sigurd told him all his adventures.
Who acts: son, Sigurd · What happens: believe, see, tell, adventure · To what, where: own eyes, prince, adventures, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Sigurd), 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 | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 17 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 adventures | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 22 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 told | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | son | son's own eyes | for joy; hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus for joy=Attribute | |||
| 2 | see | past | son | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Sigurd | son's adventures | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic | |||
| 4 | adventure | son | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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