The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 194
He was so charming that Delicia loved him from the moment their eyes met, and as for him, of course he could not help thinking himself the luckiest Prince in the world.
Who acts: Prince, Delicia, eyes · What happens: charm, love, meet, not help, think · To what, where: Prince, moment
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Delicia, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 charming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charming | aux |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 charming | advmod |
| 4 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 loved | mark |
| 6 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charming | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loved | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loved | obl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 moment | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 him | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 him | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 him | case |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 charming | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 26 help | advmod |
| 22 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 of | fixed |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 help | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 help | advmod |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 charming | conj |
| 27 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 help | xcomp |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 thinking | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Prince | det |
| 30 | luckiest | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 Prince | amod |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 thinking | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Prince | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · progressive | Prince | as head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | Delicia | Prince | moment | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | meet | past | people's eyes | the moment not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not help | could | Prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other not said to happen | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince | the luckiest Prince in the world obl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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 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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