The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 62
After searching as usual for nearly a whole day Prince Saphir began to feel overcome with thirst.
What happens: search, begin, feel
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: 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 searching | mark |
| 2 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 began | advcl |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 usual | case |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 searching | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 searching | obl |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 day | appos |
| 11 | Saphir | Saphir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Prince | flat |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 feel | mark |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | overcome | overcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feel | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 thirst | case |
| 17 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 overcome | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | gerund | day | as usual | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | feel | to-infinitive | overcome property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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