The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 92
The loss of the Princess, however, kept rankling in his mind day and night, till finally he thought he would go about the world to see if he could find anyone to give him news of her.
Who acts: loss · What happens: keep, rankle, think, go, see, find · To what, where: anyone, news, loss · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loss), 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 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 loss | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 kept | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | rankling | rankle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rankling | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 night | cc |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 thought | mark |
| 19 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 21 thought | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | advcl |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 find | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 find | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 find | aux |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 see | ccomp |
| 34 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 find | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 give | mark |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 anyone | acl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | iobj |
| 38 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 news | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the loss of the Princess | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rankle | gerund | the loss of the Princess not said here | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | loss | finally property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | would | loss | about the world | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about world=Location | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | loss not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | loss | anyone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Topic | ||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | loss not said here | news of Princess | loss | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient news=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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