The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 33
He then got angry with himself, and, summoning up all his courage, tried it a third time, and opened the door of the room and stood firm.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: get, summon up, try, open, stand · To what, where: courage, door, firm
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 angry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tried | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoning | punct |
| 10 | summoning | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 tried | ccomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 summoning | compound:prt |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 courage | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 courage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 summoning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoning | punct |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tried | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 opened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 opened | cc |
| 23 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 room | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 room | det |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 door | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stood | cc |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 opened | conj |
| 31 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Prince | then | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | summon up | gerund | Prince's courage | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | try | past | Prince not said here | courage | time | tree rules | |||
| 4 | open | past | the door of the room | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | firm | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firm=Stimulus |
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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