The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 37
Now Michael knew quite well what had happened to all the princes, but notwithstanding, the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina inspired him with a violent longing to try his fate.
Who acts: Michael, beautiful eyes · What happens: know, happen, notwithstand, inspire, try, fate · To what, where: Michael, fate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, beautiful eyes), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 what | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 princes | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 princes | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princes | det |
| 12 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 inspired | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 inspired | cc |
| 15 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 inspired | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 notwithstanding | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyes | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 inspired | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Lina | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lina | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lina | compound |
| 23 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 24 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 inspired | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 longing | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 longing | det |
| 28 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 longing | amod |
| 29 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inspired | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 try | mark |
| 31 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 inspired | advcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fate | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 try | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Michael | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | to all princes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | notwithstand | gerund | the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | inspire | past | the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina | Michael | with a violent longing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | try | to-infinitive | the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina not said here | Michael's fate | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | fate | Michael | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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