The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 59
He felt so overwhelmed by despair that he thought for an instant of putting an end to his life.
Who acts: Prince, instant · What happens: feel, overwhelm, think, put · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, instant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 overwhelmed | advmod |
| 4 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 despair | case |
| 6 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overwhelmed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overwhelmed | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 instant | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 instant | det |
| 12 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 putting | mark |
| 14 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 instant | acl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 putting | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 putting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Prince | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | overwhelm | participle | Prince not said here | by despair | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Prince | for a instant | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put | gerund | a instant not said here | a end | to Prince's life | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
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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