The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 49

His joy at beholding her again was, however, somewhat lessened by seeing that the Prince of the Air was kneeling at her feet, and pleading his own cause.

Who acts: joy, Prince, fourth · What happens: behold, be, see, kneel, plead, joy · To what, where: Rosalie, joy, feet, own cause

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 (joy, Prince, fourth), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 joy	nmod:poss
2	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lessened	nsubj:pass
3	at	at	SCONJ	_	4 beholding	mark
4	beholding	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 joy	acl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beholding	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 beholding	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lessened	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lessened	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	12 lessened	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
11	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	12 lessened	advmod
12	lessened	lessen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 seeing	mark
14	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lessened	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 kneeling	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prince	det
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 kneeling	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Air	det
20	Air	Air	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Prince	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kneeling	aux
22	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 seeing	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kneeling	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pleading	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pleading	cc
28	pleading	plead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 seeing	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cause	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cause	amod
31	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pleading	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lessened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	gerund	fourth's joy not said here	Rosalie		again		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is	past · passive		fourth's joy			however, lessen, somewhat property	tree rules
3	see	gerund						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	kneel	past · progressive	the Prince of the Air		Rosalie's feet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
5	plead speech: request	gerund		fourth's own cause				tree rules
6	joy		fourth					nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
7	cause		fourth					nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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