The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 111

When the youth heard all this he determined to try and get possession of the ring, though he did not quite believe in all its wonderful gifts.

Who acts: youth, angel, ring · What happens: hear, determine, try, get, not believe, possess · To what, where: this, possession, wonderful gifts, ring

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, angel, ring), 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 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 this	det:predet
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 determined	nsubj
8	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 try	mark
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 determined	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 try	conj
13	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 ring	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possession	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 believe	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 believe	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 believe	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 believe	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 believe	advmod
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 believe	advmod
23	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 gifts	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 gifts	det:predet
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 gifts	nmod:poss
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gifts	amod
28	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 believe	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the youth	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	determine	past	angel			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	to-infinitive	angel not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	get	infinitive	angel not said here	possession of the ring		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
5	not believe	past · do-support	angel		ring's wonderful gifts	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	possess			the ring		nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient
7	gift		ring			nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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