The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 31
Then the youth rejoiced greatly, for now he felt that his life was safe; but he grew very sad when he thought of the beautiful Princess, and that he would never see her again if he left the country.
Who acts: youth, life · What happens: rejoice, feel, be, grow, think, not see · To what, where: Princess, country
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (youth, life), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rejoiced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 4 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 rejoiced | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 felt | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoiced | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 safe | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 safe | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 safe | cop |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 sad | advmod |
| 21 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 thought | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grew | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Princess | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Princess | amod |
| 28 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 see | cc |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 see | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 see | aux |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 see | advmod |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 grew | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 see | obj |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 see | advmod |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 left | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 left | nsubj |
| 40 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 see | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 country | det |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 left | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | participle | the youth | then | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | feel | past | youth | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | youth's life | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | youth | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | youth | of the beautiful Princess | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not see | would | youth | Princess | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | leave a condition, not said to happen | past | youth | the country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
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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