The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 85
Full of joy the youth hurried towards her, and begged her aid and counsel in the new piece of work he had been given to do.
Who acts: Full joy, work · What happens: hurry, beg, give, do · To what, where: aid, new piece, youth
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 (Full joy, work), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joy | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | nsubj |
| 6 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begged | cc |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurried | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 aid | nmod:poss |
| 13 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 counsel | cc |
| 15 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 aid | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 piece | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 piece | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 piece | amod |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 given | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 given | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 given | aux:pass |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 work | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 given | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | Full joy | towards implement | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Full joy not said here | implement's aid and counsel | the new piece of work | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent aid=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | work not said here | youth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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