The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 47

Now the old man was a holy hermit, and when he saw how kind-hearted the youth was he determined to do all he could for him to gain the wish of his heart.

Who acts: old man, man, holy hermit, youth, heart · What happens: be, see, heart, do, gain, wish · To what, where: holy hermit, all, wish

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, holy hermit, youth), 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	8 hermit	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hermit	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hermit	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hermit	det
7	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hermit	amod
8	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hearted	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 saw	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hermit	acl:relcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 kind	advmod
15	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saw	xcomp
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 kind	punct
17	hearted	heart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 youth	det
19	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 determined	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 determined	cop
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 determined	nsubj
22	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hearted	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 determined	xcomp
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 do	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 all	nmod
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 gain	mark
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gain	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 gain	mark
31	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 do	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wish	det
33	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gain	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 heart	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 heart	nmod:poss
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wish	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hearted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old man	a holy hermit	now		tree rules
2	see	past	man			kind property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	heart	past	a holy hermit				tree rules
4	is	past	the youth			determined property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
6	gain	to-infinitive	man	the wish of man's heart			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
7	wish		man's heart				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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