The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 86

The Groac’h seemed overjoyed to see her, and told her that never before had she beheld such a handsome young man.

Who acts: Groac’h · What happens: seem, overjoy, see, tell, behold · To what, where: Groac’h, handsome young man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Groac’h), 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 Groac’h	det
2	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seemed	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 overjoyed	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 beheld	mark
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 before	advmod
14	before	before	ADV	_	17 beheld	advmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beheld	aux
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beheld	nsubj
17	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 man	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beheld	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Groac’h				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	overjoy	participle	the Groac’h not said here				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the Groac’h not said here	Groac’h = groac'h			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	the Groac’h not said here		Groac’h = groac'h		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	behold	past · perfect	Groac’h = groac'h	such handsome young man		before property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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