The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 52

The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without weighing the matter, that he could put an end to this rare adventure; and, pushed on by love and honor, resolved that moment to look into it.

Who acts: young Prince, grandfather · What happens: be, believe, weigh, put, push on, resolve · To what, where: fire, matter, end

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, grandfather), 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	3 Prince	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Prince	amod
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fire	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fire	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 fire	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 fire	case
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 words	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fire	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 believing	punct
12	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fire	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weighing	punct
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 weighing	mark
15	weighing	weigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 believing	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 matter	det
17	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weighing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 put	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 weighing	advcl
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 end	det
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 adventure	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 adventure	det
27	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 adventure	amod
28	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 pushed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pushed	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pushed	punct
32	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fire	parataxis
33	on	on	ADP	_	32 pushed	compound:prt
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 love	case
35	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pushed	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 honor	cc
37	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 love	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 resolved	punct
39	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pushed	conj
40	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 moment	det
41	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 resolved	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 look	mark
43	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 resolved	advcl
44	into	into	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 look	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young Prince		fire		at this words; all property	tree rules
2	believe	gerund						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	weigh	gerund		the matter				vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme matter=Value
4	put	could	grandfather	a end			to this rare adventure	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
5	push on	participle					by love and honor	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by love=Trajectory
6	resolve	past				moment		tree rules
7	look	to-infinitive					into adventure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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