The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 64

The unhappy youth had determined to let himself die, and indeed his sorrow alone was enough to kill him, when the thought that by means of the cabinets of the years he might find out where the Princess was imprisoned, gave him a little ray of comfort.

Who acts: stone, sorrow, thought · What happens: determine, let, die, be, kill, mean · To what, where: unhappy youth, stone, Princess, little ray, thought, comfort · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stone, sorrow, thought), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youth	amod
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 determined	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 determined	aux
5	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 determined	xcomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 let	obj
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 enough	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 enough	cc
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 enough	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sorrow	nmod:poss
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enough	nsubj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 sorrow	advmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 enough	cop
17	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 determined	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 kill	mark
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 enough	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kill	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 when	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 enough	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thought	det
24	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 when	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 means	nsubj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 means	case
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thought	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 cabinets	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cabinets	det
30	cabinets	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 find	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 years	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 years	det
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 find	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 means	ccomp
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 find	compound:prt
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 imprisoned	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Princess	det
40	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 imprisoned	aux:pass
42	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 find	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 gave	punct
44	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 imprisoned	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 gave	iobj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 ray	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 ray	amod
48	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gave	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 comfort	case
50	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 ray	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past · perfect · passive		the unhappy youth				tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive		stone				tree rules
3	die	infinitive	stone not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	past	stone's sorrow				enough, indeed property	tree rules
5	kill	to-infinitive	stone's sorrow not said here	stone				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	mean	present	the thought					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	find out	might	thought			year	of the cabinets	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of cabinet=Topic
8	imprison	past · passive		the Princess				vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	give	past		a little ray of comfort	thought			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ray=Theme
10	sorrow		stone					nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
11	ray			comfort				nom ray «phenomenon 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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