The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 32

As soon as the fright began to pass off he tried it again, for he thought it would be interesting to hear what it said; but things went just as before with him.

Who acts: Prince, fright, things · What happens: begin, pass off, try, think, be, hear · To what, where: fright · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, fright, things), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 began	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 fright	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fright	det
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pass	mark
8	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 pass	compound:prt
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tried	nsubj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tried	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 tried	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 thought	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 interesting	expl
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 interesting	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 interesting	cop
21	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thought	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 interesting	csubj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 hear	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 what	acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 before	advmod
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 before	advmod
33	before	before	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past				as the fright; soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pass off	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past	Prince	fright	again		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	past	Prince				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	would				interesting property	tree rules
6	hear	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert	past	fright				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	go	past	things			with Prince; before property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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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