The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 204
The old King nearly went out of his mind with joy at beholding his daughter again.
Who acts: old King, King · What happens: go out, behold, mind · To what, where: mind, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mind | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 beholding | mark |
| 13 | beholding | behold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beholding | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 beholding | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old King | King's mind with joy | nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | behold | gerund | the old King not said here | King's daughter | again | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | mind | King | with joy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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