The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 92
The Herd-boy was so pleased to think what pleasure he had given that the next night he placed another bag of gold beside the girl’s bed.
Who acts: Herd boy, pleasure, BOY · What happens: be, think, give, place · To what, where: pleasure, BOY, bag, bed
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 (Herd boy, pleasure, BOY), 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 | 4 boy | det |
| 2 | Herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Herd | punct |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 pleased | advmod |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pleased | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 pleasure | det |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 think | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 placed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | nsubj |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | advcl |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 bag | det |
| 22 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bag | nmod |
| 25 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 29 bed | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bed | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 girl | case |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Herd boy | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the Herd boy not said here | what pleasure | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | what pleasure not said here | BOY | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | past | BOY | another bag of gold | the girl's bed | night | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme beside bed=Destination |
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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