The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 21
When the Prince found himself alone he began to be tormented by pangs of curiosity as to what the room in the tower contained.
Who acts: Prince, pangs, room · What happens: find, begin, torment, contain · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince, pangs, room), 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 | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | advcl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tormented | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tormented | aux:pass |
| 11 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 began | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 pangs | case |
| 13 | pangs | pang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tormented | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 curiosity | case |
| 15 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pangs | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 what | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 tormented | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 contained | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tower | det |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 room | nmod |
| 24 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Prince | Prince | alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | torment | to-infinitive · passive | pangs of curiosity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | contain | past | the room in the tower | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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