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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

markadvcldetamodobjcasenmod:possamodnmodcasenmodpunctnsubjdetobjcaseamodamodnmodobjnsubjcaseoblacl:relclnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctccpunctauxconjobjpunctconjobjdetxcompcasenmodpunctrootAfterSCONJspendingVERBtheDETgreaterADJpartNOUNofADPhisPRONearlyADJyouthNOUNinADPpleasureNOUN,PUNCThePRONmetVERBaDETPrincessPROPNofADPsuchADJremarkableADJbeautyNOUNthatPRONhePRONatADPonceADVaskedVERBherPRONhandNOUNinADPmarriageNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCThavingAUXobtainedVERBitPRON,PUNCTconsideredVERBhimselfPRONtheDEThappiestADJofADPmenNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_2 spendingmark
2spendingspendVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 metadvcl
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 partdet
4greatergreatADJDegree=Cmp5 partamod
5partpartNOUNNumber=Sing2 spendingobj
6ofofADP_9 youthcase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 youthnmod:poss
8earlyearlyADJDegree=Pos9 youthamod
9youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing5 partnmod
10ininADP_11 pleasurecase
11pleasurepleasureNOUNNumber=Sing9 youthnmod
12,,PUNCT_2 spendingpunct
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 metnsubj
14metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 Princessdet
16PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing14 metobj
17ofofADP_20 beautycase
18suchsuchADJDegree=Pos20 beautyamod
19remarkableremarkableADJDegree=Pos20 beautyamod
20beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing16 Princessnmod
21thatthatPRONPronType=Rel25 askedobj
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 askednsubj
23atatADP_24 oncecase
24onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult25 askedobl
25askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 beautyacl:relcl
26herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 handnmod:poss
27handhandNOUNNumber=Sing25 askedobj
28ininADP_29 marriagecase
29marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing25 askedobl
30,,PUNCT_34 obtainedpunct
31andandCCONJ_34 obtainedcc
32,,PUNCT_31 andpunct
33havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part34 obtainedaux
34obtainedobtainVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part14 metconj
35ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 obtainedobj
36,,PUNCT_37 consideredpunct
37consideredconsiderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 metconj
38himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes37 consideredobj
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 happiestdet
40happiesthappyADJDegree=Sup37 consideredxcomp
41ofofADP_42 mencase
42menmanNOUNNumber=Plur40 happiestnmod
43..PUNCT_14 metpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spendgerundpower not said herethe greater part of power's early youth in pleasurevn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset
2meetpastpowera Princess of such remarkable beautyvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent
3ask speech: askpastpowersuch remarkable beautymarriagetree rules
4obtaingerund · perfectpower not said herepartvn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme
5considerpastpower not said herepowerhappy propertyvn 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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