The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 63
The poor youth himself was heart-broken, and cursed the hour he had crossed the boundary of the King’s domain.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: break, curse, cross · To what, where: poor youth, boundary
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 youth | amod |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 youth | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | aux:pass |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broken | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cursed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cursed | cc |
| 11 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cursed | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 crossed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crossed | aux |
| 16 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 cursed | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boundary | det |
| 18 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crossed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 domain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 domain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boundary | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | the poor youth Ferko | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | curse | past | hour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cross | past · perfect | Ferko | the boundary of the King's domain | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boundary=Patient |
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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