The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 86
After spending the greater part of his early youth in pleasure, he met a Princess of such remarkable beauty that he at once asked her hand in marriage, and, having obtained it, considered himself the happiest of men.
Who acts: power · What happens: spend, meet, ask, obtain, consider · To what, where: greater part, Princess, such remarkable beauty, marriage, part, power
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 spending | mark |
| 2 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 met | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 4 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 part | amod |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spending | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 youth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 youth | amod |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pleasure | case |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 youth | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spending | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 beauty | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beauty | amod |
| 19 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beauty | amod |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Princess | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 asked | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 asked | obl |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 marriage | case |
| 29 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 obtained | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 obtained | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 and | punct |
| 33 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 obtained | aux |
| 34 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 met | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 obtained | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 considered | punct |
| 37 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 met | conj |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 considered | obj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 happiest | det |
| 40 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 considered | xcomp |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 men | case |
| 42 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 happiest | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | gerund | power not said here | the greater part of power's early youth in pleasure | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | power | a Princess of such remarkable beauty | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | power | such remarkable beauty | marriage | tree rules | |||
| 4 | obtain | gerund · perfect | power not said here | part | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | consider | past | power not said here | power | happy property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
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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