The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 3
However, what troubled him most was the idea of having to meet the Frog who had been his benefactress.
Who acts: idea, Frog · What happens: trouble, be, have, meet · To what, where: Prince, idea, Frog, benefactress
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, Frog), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 troubled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 troubled | nsubj |
| 4 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 troubled | obj |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 idea | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 idea | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 troubled | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 having | mark |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 idea | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 having | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Frog | det |
| 15 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 benefactress | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 benefactress | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 benefactress | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 benefactress | nmod:poss |
| 20 | benefactress | benefactress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Frog | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | past | Prince | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the idea | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the idea not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the idea not said here | the Frog | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | the Frog | Prince's benefactress | 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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