The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 103

The prince listened eagerly, and was delighted to think that he was to go away all by himself to see the world, and was not in the least frightened; for though he was now sixteen, he had scarcely been allowed to walk alone beyond the palace gardens.

Who acts: prince · What happens: listen, be, think, see, frighten, allow · To what, where: world, least, prince, palace gardens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	3 listened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 delighted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 delighted	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 delighted	cop
8	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 listened	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 delighted	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 go	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 go	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 think	ccomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	all	all	ADV	_	21 see	advmod
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 see	mark
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 see	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 in	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 in	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 in	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 in	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	3 listened	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 frightened	det
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 frightened	nsubj:pass
31	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 in	parataxis
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 sixteen	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	38 sixteen	case
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 sixteen	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sixteen	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sixteen	cop
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 sixteen	advmod
38	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 frightened	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 allowed	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 allowed	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 allowed	aux
42	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	44 allowed	advmod
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 allowed	aux:pass
44	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 frightened	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 walk	mark
46	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 allowed	xcomp
47	alone	alone	ADV	_	46 walk	advmod
48	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	51 gardens	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 gardens	det
50	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gardens	compound
51	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 walk	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the prince				eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the prince not said here				delighted property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the prince not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is	past	prince				away, go property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	prince	the world			all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
6	frighten	participle · passive		least				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7	is	past	prince			now	for sixteen	tree rules
8	allow	past · perfect · passive		prince			scarcely property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
9	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here		the palace gardens		alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond garden=Trajectory

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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