The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 91
Accordingly, to the delight of his teachers, he made the most rapid progress in his education, constantly surpassing everyone’s expectations.
Who acts: godmother, teachers, everyone · What happens: make, surpass, delight, educate, expect · To what, where: rapid progress, education, expectations
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 (godmother, teachers, everyone), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 delight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 delight | det |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 teachers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teachers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 delight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 delight | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 progress | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 rapid | advmod |
| 14 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 progress | amod |
| 15 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 education | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 education | nmod:poss |
| 18 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 progress | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 surpassing | punct |
| 20 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 21 surpassing | advmod |
| 21 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 22 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 expectations | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 everyone | case |
| 24 | expectations | expectation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 surpassing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | godmother | the rapid progress | godmother's education | to the delight of godmother's teachers; accordingly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Product | ||
| 2 | surpass | gerund | godmother not said here | everyone's expectations | constantly property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot expectation=Theme | |||
| 3 | delight | godmother's teachers | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | educate | godmother | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | expect | everyone | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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