The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 36

Thenceforward he found no more gold under his pillow, and it lay under the maiden’s; but he was so much in love and so much bewitched that he thought of nothing except spending all his time with the maiden.

Who acts: Thenceforward, gold · What happens: find, lie, be, bewitch, think, spend · To what, where: more gold, pillow, maiden, love

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thenceforward, gold), 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	Thenceforward	Thenceforward	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 gold	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 pillow	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pillow	nmod:poss
9	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lay	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 maiden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 maiden	case
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 much	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 much	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 much	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 much	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 love	case
25	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 much	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bewitched	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 bewitched	advmod
29	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 much	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 thought	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bewitched	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 thought	obl
35	except	except	ADP	_	36 spending	mark
36	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 nothing	acl
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 time	det:predet
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 time	nmod:poss
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spending	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 maiden	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 maiden	det
42	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spending	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Thenceforward	more gold	Thenceforward's pillow			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic
2	lie	past	gold		the maiden			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under maiden=Location
3	is	past	Thenceforward		love		much property	tree rules
4	bewitch	past	Thenceforward not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	past	Thenceforward				of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	spend	gerund				time	with the maiden	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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