The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 78

Then he told her how he had set his heart on finding the king’s daughter.

Who acts: heart · What happens: tell, set, find · To what, where: woman, heart, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 set	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	aux
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obj
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 finding	mark
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 set	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finding	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	heart		woman	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	set	past · perfect · passive		heart			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination
3	find	gerund		the king's daughter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic

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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