The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 49

Prince Saphir, who loved his father very dearly, was so unhappy at this that he persuaded himself that he might succeed where the others had failed, and at once prepared himself for a more distant search.

Who acts: Saphir, bird, others · What happens: love, be, persuade, succeed, fail, prepare · To what, where: father, this, bird

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 (Saphir, bird, others), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Saphir	nmod:desc
2	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 unhappy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Saphir	acl:relcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 dearly	advmod
9	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	5 loved	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Saphir	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unhappy	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 unhappy	advmod
13	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 unhappy	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 persuaded	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 persuaded	nsubj
18	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unhappy	advcl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 persuaded	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 succeed	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 succeed	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 succeed	aux
23	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 persuaded	advcl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 failed	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 others	det
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 failed	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 failed	aux
28	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 succeed	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 prepared	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 prepared	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 prepared	obl
33	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unhappy	parataxis
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 prepared	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	39 search	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 search	det
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 distant	advmod
38	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 search	amod
39	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 prepared	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	Saphir Prince	bird's father		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
2	is	past	Saphir Prince		this	unhappy property	tree rules
3	persuade	past	bird	bird			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	succeed	might	bird				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fail	past · perfect	the others				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	prepare	past		bird		for a distant search	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Product for search=Beneficiary

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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