The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 18
The thought that he should soon behold his lost bride made his heart beat for joy, and he sped along lightly and swiftly.
Who acts: thought · What happens: behold, lose, make, speed · To what, where: lost bride, heart beat
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 behold | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 behold | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 behold | aux |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 behold | advmod |
| 7 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | acl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bride | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bride | amod |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 behold | obj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | compound |
| 14 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sped | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sped | nsubj |
| 20 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | parataxis |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 sped | advmod |
| 22 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 20 sped | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 swiftly | cc |
| 24 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 22 lightly | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | should | thought | thought's lost bride | soon property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | the thought | thought's heart beat | for joy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent beat=Product for joy=Asset | |||
| 4 | speed | past | thought | along, lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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