The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 23

Certainly it was very delightful to be able to see her whom he loved at any moment he chose, but his spirits sometimes sank when he wondered what was to be the end of this adventure.

Who acts: it, movement, spirits · What happens: be, see, love, choose, sink, wonder · To what, where: girl, moment, end · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it, movement, spirits), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 delightful	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 delightful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delightful	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 delightful	advmod
5	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 able	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 delightful	csubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 loved	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loved	nsubj
14	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 moment	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loved	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chose	nsubj
19	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 moment	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sank	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sank	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 spirits	nmod:poss
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sank	nsubj
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 sank	advmod
25	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delightful	parataxis
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 wondered	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wondered	nsubj
28	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sank	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 end	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 end	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	34 end	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 end	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wondered	ccomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 adventure	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 adventure	det
37	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			certainly, delightful property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive				able property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive		girl			tree rules
4	love	past	movement		moment		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	choose	past	movement	any moment not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Theme
6	sink	past	movement's spirits			sometimes property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	wonder speech: ask	past	movement				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past		the end		of this adventure	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 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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