The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 3

From his earliest childhood he heard nothing but stories of princes who had fallen into all sorts of troubles through love; and she drew such terrible pictures of poor little Cupid that the young man had no difficulty in believing that he was the root of all evil.

Who acts: he, princes, she, young man, difficulty, man · What happens: hear, fall, draw, have, believe, be · To what, where: nothing, earliest childhood, sorts, such terrible pictures, difficulty, root · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (he, princes, she, young man), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 childhood	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 childhood	nmod:poss
3	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 childhood	amod
4	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 heard	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stories	cc
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nothing	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 princes	case
11	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stories	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fallen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fallen	aux
14	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 princes	acl:relcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 sorts	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 sorts	det
17	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fallen	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 troubles	case
19	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sorts	nmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 love	case
21	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fallen	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 drew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drew	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drew	nsubj
25	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pictures	amod
27	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pictures	amod
28	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drew	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Cupid	case
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Cupid	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Cupid	amod
32	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 pictures	nmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drew	advcl
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 difficulty	det
39	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	in	in	SCONJ	_	41 believing	mark
41	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 difficulty	acl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 root	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 root	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 root	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 root	det
46	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 believing	ccomp
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 evil	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 evil	det
49	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 root	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	nothing	his earliest childhood		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic from childhood=Source
2	fall	past · perfect	princes		all sorts of troubles	through love	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sort=Initial_Location through love=Destination
3	draw	past	she	such terrible pictures of poor little Cupid			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
4	have	past	the young man	no difficulty			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
5	believe	gerund	no difficulty not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	man	the root		of all evil	tree rules
7	sort			troubles			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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