The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 73

Although his task was no easier than that of the day before, the youth set out much more cheerfully, because he knew he could count an the help of the black girl.

Who acts: task, youth, Prince · What happens: not be, set out, know, count, task, help · To what, where: an, black girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (task, youth, Prince), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	6 easier	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 task	nmod:poss
3	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 easier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easier	cop
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 easier	advmod
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 easier	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 that	nmod
12	before	before	ADV	_	11 day	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youth	det
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 easier	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 cheerfully	advmod
20	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	16 set	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 knew	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 set	parataxis
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 count	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 count	aux
27	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 knew	ccomp
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 count	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 help	det
30	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 count	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 girl	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 girl	det
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 girl	amod
34	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 help	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 easier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Prince's task		than that; easy property	tree rules
2	set out	participle	the youth		cheerfully property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	Prince			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	count	could	Prince	an		tree rules
5	task		Prince			nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	help			the black girl		nom help «act 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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