The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 22

As might have been expected, the young Prince lost his heart completely to the beautiful image, and it was impossible to get him out of the room, so busy was he in watching the lovely unknown.

Who acts: young Prince, movement · What happens: expect, lose, be, get, watch · To what, where: heart, movement, room, lovely unknown

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, movement), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 expected	mark
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 expected	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 expected	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 expected	aux:pass
5	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lost	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 expected	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Prince	amod
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heart	nmod:poss
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	completely	completely	ADV	_	10 lost	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 image	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 image	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 image	amod
17	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 impossible	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 impossible	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 impossible	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 impossible	cop
22	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lost	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 impossible	csubj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 room	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 room	det
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 busy	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 busy	advmod
32	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 impossible	conj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 watching	aux
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 watching	nsubj
35	in	in	SCONJ	_	36 watching	mark
36	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 busy	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 unknown	det
38	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 unknown	amod
39	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 watching	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	might · perfect · passive	the young Prince not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»
2	lose	past	the young Prince	movement's heart		to the beautiful image; completely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
3	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive		movement	the room		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	be						tree rules
6	watch	past · progressive	movement	the lovely unknown			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unknown=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 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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