The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 25
When the youth reached home again, anyone can imagine what a state of mind he was in.
Who acts: youth, anyone, state · What happens: reach, imagine, be · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, anyone, state), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagine | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 imagine | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagine | aux |
| 10 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 imagine | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 state | det |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 what | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 state | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 in | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 in | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 mind | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the youth | again | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | imagine | can | anyone | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | past | state | mind not said here | in property | tree rules |
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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