The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 87
This sight only increased the misery of the Prince, for he did not know where the castle was, nor how to set about finding it.
Who acts: sight, castle · What happens: increase, not know, be, set, find · To what, where: misery, castle · 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 (sight, castle), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 increased | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 increased | advmod |
| 4 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 misery | det |
| 6 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 increased | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 misery | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 increased | parataxis |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 was | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 set | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 set | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 set | mark |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | conj |
| 25 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 26 finding | mark |
| 26 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 set | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 finding | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | this sight | the misery of the Prince | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer misery=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | the castle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | sight not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | find | gerund | sight not said here | castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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