The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 41

The prince lost no time in setting out for the royal palace, and on his way there he met such a wonderfully lovely woman that he felt he had never seen such beauty in all his life.

Who acts: prince, time, Ring · What happens: lose, set out, meet, feel, not see · To what, where: lovely woman, way, such beauty, life

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, time, Ring), 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 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 setting	mark
7	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 time	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 setting	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 palace	amod
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 setting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 met	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 met	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 met	obl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 way	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 woman	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 woman	det
23	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	24 lovely	advmod
24	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 met	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 felt	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 felt	nsubj
28	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 met	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 seen	advmod
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 felt	ccomp
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 beauty	amod
34	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 life	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 life	det:predet
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 life	nmod:poss
38	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the prince			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set out	gerund	no time not said here				for the royal palace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	Ring	such lovely woman	Ring's way			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent
4	feel	past	Ring					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not see	past · perfect	Ring	such beauty	Ring's life			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus

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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