The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 23
On hearing these words, the young man entered the hut, but his heart was too eager within him to suffer him to rest, and when he arose, the old man rose too, and stood with him at the door.
Who acts: young man, heart, old man · What happens: hear, enter, be, suffer, rest, arise · To what, where: words, hut, way, door
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 (young man, heart, old man), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 entered | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eager | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 eager | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eager | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 eager | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 eager | advmod |
| 18 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 entered | advcl |
| 19 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 suffer | mark |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 suffer | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 suffer | mark |
| 22 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 eager | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 suffer | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 rest | mark |
| 25 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 suffer | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rose | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rose | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 arose | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 arose | nsubj |
| 30 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 rose | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 arose | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rose | nsubj |
| 35 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entered | conj |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 rose | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stood | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stood | cc |
| 39 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 rose | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 stood | obl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 door | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 door | det |
| 44 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stood | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the young man not said here | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the young man | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | way's heart | eager property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suffer | to-infinitive | heart | way | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | arise | past | heart | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | rise | past | the old man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | stand | past | the old man not said here | the door | with heart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
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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