The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 56
When he failed to find her he flew into a terrible rage, and hastened home to consult his books, by which means he discovered that it was his son who had deprived him of this precious treasure.
Who acts: King, rage, son · What happens: fail, not find, fly, hasten, consult, mean · To what, where: Princess, terrible rage, books, son, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, rage, son), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 failed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 failed | nsubj |
| 3 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 failed | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 rage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rage | det |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rage | amod |
| 12 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hastened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hastened | cc |
| 15 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flew | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 hastened | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 consult | mark |
| 18 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hastened | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 books | nmod:poss |
| 20 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 consult | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hastened | parataxis |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 discovered | nsubj |
| 26 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | ccomp |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 son | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 son | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 son | cop |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 discovered | ccomp |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 deprived | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 deprived | aux |
| 34 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 son | acl:relcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 deprived | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 treasure | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 treasure | det |
| 38 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 treasure | amod |
| 39 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 deprived | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | King | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not find | to-infinitive | King not said here | Princess | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | King | into a terrible rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | ||||
| 4 | hasten | participle | King not said here | home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | consult | to-infinitive | King not said here | King's books | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | discover | past | King | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | rage | King's son | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | deprive | past · perfect | King's son | King | of this precious treasure | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of treasure=Theme |
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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