The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 30

No sooner did the Prince begin to grow out of boyhood than he longed to see if the other countries of the world were as splendid as the one in which he lived.

Who acts: Prince, King, other countries · What happens: do, begin, grow out, long, see, be · To what, where: boyhood

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 (Prince, King, other countries), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 begin	nsubj
6	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 grow	mark
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 begin	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 boyhood	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 boyhood	case
11	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obl
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 longed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 longed	nsubj
14	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 longed	xcomp
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 splendid	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 countries	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 countries	amod
20	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 splendid	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 countries	nmod
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 splendid	cop
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 splendid	advmod
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 see	ccomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 splendid	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lived	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lived	nsubj
33	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 one	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			soon property	tree rules
2	begin	present	the Prince			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	grow out	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	boyhood		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boyhood=Theme
4	long	past	King			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the other countries of the world		as the one; splendid property	tree rules
7	live	past	King		in the one	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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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